From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 10 05:57:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9347C10656C1 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:57:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59BF08FC19 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:57:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id o1A5vmoU078727 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:57:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o1A5vkGM013208 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:57:47 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id o1A5vjDX013114; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:57:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:57:44 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Tim Daneliuk Message-ID: <20100210055744.GC64193@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4B72460A.5070404@tundraware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B72460A.5070404@tundraware.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:57:48 -0600 (CST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: FBSD 8.0 littering the filesystem with *.gmon files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:57:49 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 09), Tim Daneliuk said: > I realize that developers find these helpful, but is there a way to > suppress the creation of these files all over the filesystem? You must have enabled profiling in CFLAGS somewhere; it's not on by default. Search for "-p" or "-pg" in /etc/make.conf or you shell's startup scripts. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com