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SubjectRe: perf: counter and event question
FromPeter Zijlstra <>
DateMon, 28 Dec 2009 12:26:13 +0100
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 12:16 +0100, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> like it is impossible to sample instructions with a period of 1?

Pretty much, imagine the cpu getting a trap every cycle.

In order to avoid the machine grinding to a halt, we've implemented a
throttle which defaults to 100k samples/s, anything over that will be
discarted.



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