Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:44:22 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] perf,tools: add time out to force stop endless mmap processing |
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> Perhaps we should add a per-thread-proc-map-processing timeout parameter > to the synthesizing routines instead of having that hardcoded, i.e. > allow the tool to specify what is reasonable for it, but that wouldn't > be strictly required for a first patch, emitting the dialog box above > after synthesizing, if truncation happened, is. > > Agreed?
If you make top emit a dialog box please make it appear only once and have a timeout so that it doesn't block it forever
I personally would prefer of top just doing best effort and not giving such warnings which the user cannot do anything about anyways.
-Andi
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