Subj : profiling pthread mutex contention
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : jezuk
Date : Thu Mar 03 2005 05:55 am

Hi,

Are there any tools or any suggestions that profile posix mutex
contention, i.e. stats on how long is spent waiting for other mutex locks
to free themselves up? How many times mutexes have to wait etc?

I am writing my program in C using POSIX under Solaris 2.9.

The intel profiler does this I know but is not much use. I am not sure
whether LockStat can do it. Is there any way I can write something to
generate these stats or a tool that will generate them for me?

Regards,
Jon

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