Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

2008-01-18 Thread Andi Kleen
> syscall nr and pid at minimum then. oprofile already supports logging the pid I believe. Otherwise the pid filter in opreport could hardly work. > Still doesn't work for modules either. oprofile works fine for modules. > > what it ends up doing is using an entirely different interface for >

Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

2008-01-18 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Andi Kleen wrote: another thing that the current profiling can't do, is to show what the system is doing when it hits the latency.. so someone calling fsync() will show up in the waiting for IO function, but not that it was due to an fsync(). Hmm so how about extending oprofile to always log

Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool II

2008-01-18 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 06:33:30AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > another thing that the current profiling can't do, is to show what the > > system is doing > > when it hits the latency.. so someone calling fsync() will show up in the > > waiting for > > IO function, but not that it was due to an f

Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

2008-01-18 Thread Andi Kleen
> another thing that the current profiling can't do, is to show what the > system is doing > when it hits the latency.. so someone calling fsync() will show up in the > waiting for > IO function, but not that it was due to an fsync(). Hmm so how about extending oprofile to always log the syscall

Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

2008-01-18 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Andi Kleen wrote: yes indeed; I sort of use the same infrastructure inside the scheduler; the biggest reason I felt I had to do something different was that I wanted to do per process data collection, so that you can see for a specific process what was going on. Wouldn't it have been easier t

Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

2008-01-18 Thread Andi Kleen
> yes indeed; I sort of use the same infrastructure inside the scheduler; the > biggest > reason I felt I had to do something different was that I wanted to do per > process > data collection, so that you can see for a specific process what was going > on. Wouldn't it have been easier then to j

Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

2008-01-18 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Andi Kleen wrote: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The Intel Open Source Technology Center is pleased to announce the release of version 0.1 of LatencyTOP, a tool for developers to visualize system latencies. Just for completeness -- Linux already had a way to profile latencies si

Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

2008-01-18 Thread Andi Kleen
Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Intel Open Source Technology Center is pleased to announce the > release of version 0.1 of LatencyTOP, a tool for developers to visualize > system latencies. Just for completeness -- Linux already had a way to profile latencies since quite some t

Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

2008-01-18 Thread Zan Lynx
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 09:36 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > The Intel Open Source Technology Center is pleased to announce the > release of version 0.1 of LatencyTOP, a tool for developers to visualize > system latencies. > > http://www.latencytop.org > > Slow servers, Skipping audio, Jerky vid

Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

2008-01-18 Thread Roberto Fichera
At 18.36 18/01/2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >The Intel Open Source Technology Center is pleased to announce the >release of version 0.1 of LatencyTOP, a tool for developers to visualize >system latencies. > >http://www.latencytop.org > [...snip...] > >The most basic annotation looks like this (i

Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

2008-01-18 Thread Roberto Fichera
At 19.35 18/01/2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >Roberto Fichera wrote: >> At 18.36 18/01/2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>> The Intel Open Source Technology Center is pleased to announce the >>> release of version 0.1 of LatencyTOP, a tool for developers to visualize >>> system latencies. >>> >>> http

Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

2008-01-18 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Roberto Fichera wrote: At 18.36 18/01/2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: The Intel Open Source Technology Center is pleased to announce the release of version 0.1 of LatencyTOP, a tool for developers to visualize system latencies. http://www.latencytop.org [...snip...] The most basic annotation

[Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool

2008-01-18 Thread Arjan van de Ven
The Intel Open Source Technology Center is pleased to announce the release of version 0.1 of LatencyTOP, a tool for developers to visualize system latencies. http://www.latencytop.org Slow servers, Skipping audio, Jerky video --everyone knows the symptoms of latency. But to know what's really go