Roman,

Since you are on the Sun Studio team, and since this thread is related
to threads/locks, may be it is a good place to ask here...

Intel has thread checker, which is similar to Sun's thread analyzer.
However, is there a tool on Solaris that is similar to Intel's Thread
Profiler??

Rayson





On Nov 7, 2007 9:21 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Thousands of cycles sounds like a reasonable assessment, but in my book
> that doesn't make DTrace application to lock monitoring much slower.
> pthread_mutex_lock would take about 10-30K cycles (depending on whether
> it is contended or not) so we're talking about ~5% overhead. Again,
> I don't consider it to be negligible, but at the same time it is
> far from being catastrophic and in now way rules out DTrace application.
> IMHO.
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>
>
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