linux-perf-users.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>,
	"linux-perf-use." <linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: 大平怜 <rei.odaira@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Issue perf attaching to processes creating many short-live threads
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:56:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <562A82F5.8090306@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <562A81ED.70900@redhat.com>

On 10/23/15 12:52 PM, William Cohen wrote:
> Earlier this month Rei Odeira found that the oprofile tool operf would
> have problems attaching and monitoring a process that created many
> very short-lived threads.  It looks like the kernel's perf tool also
> has issues when attempting to attach and monitor a process that is
> creating many short-lived threads.

known a problem. If this is the problem I think it is you will find that 
strace shows perf stuck walking /proc directory.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-23 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-23 18:52 Issue perf attaching to processes creating many short-live threads William Cohen
2015-10-23 18:56 ` David Ahern [this message]
2015-10-23 19:27   ` William Cohen
2015-10-23 19:35     ` David Ahern
2015-10-26 19:49       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-10-26 21:42         ` David Ahern
2015-10-27 12:33           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-10-27 14:15             ` David Ahern
2015-10-27 14:47               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=562A82F5.8090306@gmail.com \
    --to=dsahern@gmail.com \
    --cc=linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=rei.odaira@gmail.com \
    --cc=wcohen@redhat.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).