[fedora-java] Re: Oprofiling Eclipse CVS checkout

[Andrew Haley]

Tom Tromey writes:
 > Andrew> Thanks for everyone's suggestions.  I've been running into the
 > Andrew> CVS slowdown issue while preparing our talks for GUADEC so I
 > Andrew> spent a bit more time profiling this afternoon.  I've got two
 > Andrew> reports (from two independent runs of checking out gnu-crypto)
 > Andrew> that are pretty similar.  I've attached bzipped versions of
 > Andrew> them.
 > 
 > These look a bit weird, e.g.:
 > 
 > 5384      7.8072  libgcj.so.6.0.0          java::lang::Compiler::Compiler()
 > 5358      7.7695  libgcj.so.6.0.0          __do_global_ctors_aux
 > 
 > But Compiler's constructor is private and, afaik, never called.
 > And __do_global_ctors_aux should barely show up, I think.
 > 
 > 
 > Anthony ran into some problem where oprofile was finding the wrong
 > symbols.  He upgraded and this was fixed.  I don't know what versions
 > are affected.

OK, so I'm not going to investigate this further.

FWIW, my oprofile results have been accurate AFAICS.  Oh, and Will
Cohen is extremely helpful -- we should use him if we have oprofile
problems.

Andrew.