[MUD-Dev] [TECH] Server Bottlenecks

Jim Purbrick Jpurbrick at climax.co.uk
Thu Sep 4 16:38:45 CEST 2003


J C Lawrence wrote:

> Use a kernel profiler like OProfile.  You may also like to
> investigate using the new NLTM supports in recent Linux kernels
> and libC versions (adds an N:M threading model rather than N:N).

I've had a look at OProfile, but can't get it working on our Redhat
8 Xeon machines. Are there any other similar tools you can
recommend?

> I also tend to do what I call lock time graphs, which are simple
> records of how much time is spent waiting for the various types
> and locations of locks.  (There's probably a more standard name
> for this)

How do you generate the graphs? Using a tool or using logging?

Cheers,

Jim.
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