Re: [perf-discuss] [dtrace-discuss] track program time - need some guidelines

2009-07-13 Thread tester
Thanks Jim. > Threads are put to sleep when they issue blocking > system calls. > I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "only know > synchronous > app wait from an app perspective", but the > threads will be in the > sleep state (SLP) after issuing the read/write until > the data is > availabl

Re: [perf-discuss] fork failure - vmem stats

2008-11-14 Thread tester
example that uses open64 here: > > http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace/Speculative+Traci > ng > > You could adapt this to use forksys instead. This > would allow you to > see just where in the kernel your fork is actually > failing. > > -j > OK. I go ahead an

[perf-discuss] fork failure - vmem stats

2008-11-14 Thread tester
I was wondering if a fork failure with EAGAIN will manifest as an allocation failure in vmem, if so how to see that and if there is a specifc cache that can be tweaked. At present the only cache that is reporting any failure is kmem_lp 1002438656 1002438656 239 1858 thank

[perf-discuss] load average - LGRP_LOADAVG_IN_THREAD_MAX

2008-08-05 Thread tester
can someone explain on how LGRP_LOADAVG_IN_THREAD_MAX is used in loadaverage calc? Thanks http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/os/clock.c#genloadavg avg = hr_avg / (NANOSEC / LGRP_LOADAVG_IN_THREAD_MAX); http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate