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To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc: Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>,
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Subject: Re: kernel profiling 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:17:21 BST."
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Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 18:02:18 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906261616390.80685-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>, Do
ug Rabson writes:

>> You can enable kernel profiling by configure kernel with `-p' or '-pp'
>> option. See config(8) and kgmon(8) for detail.
>> 
>> I have a patch for FreeBSD/alpha to support kernel profiling.
>
>Another excellent alternative for kernel profiling is iprobe.

Not to mention compiling with "-g -a" and using kernbb to get Basic
Block profiling.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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