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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:25:52 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>, davidm@hpl.hp.com
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Subject: Re: kernbench on 512p
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> On Thursday, August 19, 2004 12:29 pm, David Mosberger wrote:
>> >>>>> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:16:33 -0400, Jesse Barnes
>> >>>>> <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> said:
>> 
>>   Jesse> It would be nice if the patch to show which lock is contended
>>   Jesse> got included.
>> 
>> Why not use q-syscollect?  It will show you the caller of
>> ia64_spinlock_contention, which is often just as good (or better ;-).
> 
> Because it requires guile and guile SLIB, which I've never been able to setup 
> properly on a RHEL3 based distro.  Care to rewrite the tools in C or 
> something? ;)

Does lockmeter not work for you? It's sitting in my tree still, and 
Andrew's last time I looked.

M.