Re: Speed up trace mode Project GSoC

2019-03-27 Thread Mihir Luthra
Hi, Thanks for the helpful response ^_^. I have been through the code files of porttrace.tcl, tracelib & darwintrace. I understood their high level working. I will go through the function __darwintrace_get_filemap() to understand more about compare & swap & will look for more lock free primitives

Re: Speed up trace mode Project GSoC

2019-03-25 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 09:06:11PM +0530, Mihir Luthra wrote: > I am not a master in dealing with low-level system stuff, but as I > have worked pretty much with unix shell scripting and C language, I > can connect to points. > > I wanted a few tips from you regarding the project: > 1) W

Re: Speed up trace mode Project GSoC

2019-03-20 Thread Marcus Calhoun-Lopez
Greetings Mihir, I am responding to this message on the developer mailing list in case anyone else has more insight than I. > Basically, user may have installed packages or files in past which reside in > certain locations.(e.g. /usr/local) Although trace made may help identify problems with