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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] perf,tools: add time out to force stop endless mmap processing
On 6/12/15 2:39 PM, Liang, Kan wrote:
> Here are the test results.
> Please note that I get "synthesized threads took..." after the test case exit.
> It means both way have the same issue.

Got it. So what you really mean is launching perf on an already running
process perf never finishes initializing. There are several types of
problems like this. For example on a sparc system with a 1024 cpus if I
launch perf (top or record) after starting a kernel build with make -j
1024 the build finishes before perf starts collecting samples. ie., it
never finishes walking /proc until the build is complete. task_diag does
not solve that problem either and in general the procps tools can't
handle it either (ps or top for example).

For your test case what happens if you run:
perf record -- test-app

Is perf overloaded with mmap samples? does it keep up or do you have to
jack the mmap size (-m arg)?

>
> [perf]$ sudo ./perf record -a -- usleep 1
> synthesized threads took 278.780762 sec
> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.617 MB perf.data (7974 samples) ]
>
> [perf]$ sudo ./perf record -a --no-task_diag -- usleep 1
> synthesized threads took 315.612403 sec
> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.443 MB perf.data (2754 samples) ]
>

ok.

Thanks,
David



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