On 01-03-2010, Warren Harris <warrensomeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to determine what percentage of my application's cpu time > is spent in the garbage collector (for tuning purposes, but also just > to monitor the overhead). Is there any way to obtain this information > short of using gprof? Additional information provided by Gc.stat would > be ideal, or perhaps a Gc.alarm that was called at the beginning of > the gc cycle, but neither of these seem to exist. >
You can have a look at: http://ocamlviz.forge.ocamlcore.org This allow to instrument your code and watch GC activity. I think that with a little a little help on program side, you can be quite precise about GC without using gprof at all. This should also be more lightweight than gprof. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
