Subj : Re: code profilers?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Fred MacMurray
Date : Thu Aug 25 2005 05:12 pm

Jacek Pop?awski wrote:
Have you looked at valgrind/cachegrind?  Its Linux centric but works very
well.

> Hello.
> I am trying to profile multithreaded application (it works currently in
> Linux, Windows and QNX).
> 
> First I tried gprof, but output was wrong (0.00 everywhere, after few
> minutes of code execution). I read (in Usenet archive) that there is some
> workaround for gprof to work with multithreaded apps but I can't find any
> more information about it. Can you point me to one?
> 
> I tried qprof (http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/qprof/), but I think
> it works not like gprof, with default granularity output is very short,
> with small granularity I get much more information but I am still not sure
> is it really what I want. I failed giving qprof libunwind support, but I
> am working on it.
> 
> Then I tried cprof (http://cprof.sourceforge.net/), it requires
> recompiling (like gprof), I am still trying to understand output :)
> 
> Is there anything else I should try?
>

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