From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 12 23:45:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4578714ED9 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:45:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whiste.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA00188; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:44:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:44:57 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Chris Costello , Ilia Chipitsine , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical info needed In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > > > > Is it called once an year or 500000 times a second ? > > > > Is there a way how can I determine it by myself ? > > > > > > Add a statement like > > > > > > printf("somefunc() being called!\n"); > > > > > > to the top of the function you want to 'measure'. > > > > > > > > > > You can compile the kernel with -p -g and use the profiling. Actually from memory you can compile just the files in question > > > > Julian's way is the best however a quick 'n dirty would be just > to create a sysctl node for your counter, useful if you only have > a couple of things you want to track. > > -Alfred > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message