Hello Srikant -
A quantization distributes the results of your aggregation into ranges
ordered by a power-of-two. Presumably what you'd do in your script is
capture the inclusive elapsed time of each function call in your library,
then use this quantization to see how tightly-banded the times are. Perhaps
there's some blocking I/O in some of your calls, for example, in which case
you might expect a wide difference with functions that don't.
I've annotated your code to show what you're actually doing:
pid$1:libswduar::entry
{
// Associative array indexing timestamps by function call
duarEntry[probefunc] = timestamp;
// Aggregation to count each function invoked
@duarCount[probefunc] = count();
}
pid$1:libswduar::return
{
// Compute elapsed time in milliseconds
this->elapsed = (timestamp - duarEntry[probefunc])/1000000;
// Quantize elapsed time per function call
@totduarTime[probefunc] = quantize(this->elapsed);
// Zero out array element
duarEntry[probefunc] = 0;
}
That said, your output doesn't make sense, unless you are in fact waiting 2
billion-plus milliseconds on 21 of your LDAP searches. Or maybe you're using
ActiveDirectory. Joking aside, I'd guess the problem is that the trace code
assumes a single-threaded, single-CPU model. A more general solution tracks
each function call by thread:
pid$1:libswduar::entry
{
@duarCount[probefunc] = count();
}
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> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am kind of new to DTrace , I have written a script to time function calls
> in our application library ,
>
>
>
> Wanted to know how to interpret the output from quantize of the elapsed
> time
> in each function call , here is a sample
>
>
>
> Here is the entry and return function for the library that is being traced
>
>
>
> pid$1:libswduar::entry
> {
> duarEntry[probefunc] = timestamp;
> @duarCount[probefunc] = count();
> }
>
> pid$1:libswduar::return
>
> {
> this->elapsed = (timestamp - duarEntry[probefunc])/1000000;
> @totduarTime[probefunc] = quantize(this->elapsed);
> duarEntry[probefunc] = 0;
> }
>
>
>
> LdapSearchRequest
>
>
>
> value ------------- Distribution ------------- count
>
> -1 | 0
>
> 0 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 147
>
> 1 | 0
>
> 2 | 0
>
> 4 | 0
>
> 8 | 0
>
> 16 | 0
>
> 32 | 0
>
> 64 | 0
>
> 128 | 0
>
> 256 | 0
>
> 512 | 0
>
> 1024 | 0
>
> 2048 | 0
>
> 4096 | 0
>
> 8192 | 0
>
> 16384 | 0
>
> 32768 | 0
>
> 65536 | 0
>
> 131072 | 0
>
> 262144 | 0
>
> 524288 | 0
>
> 1048576 | 0
>
> 2097152 | 0
>
> 4194304 | 0
>
> 8388608 | 0
>
> 16777216 | 0
>
> 33554432 | 0
>
> 67108864 | 0
>
> 134217728 | 0
>
> 268435456 | 0
>
> 536870912 | 0
>
> 1073741824 | 0
>
> 2147483648 |@@@@@ 21
>
> 4294967296 | 0
>
>
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Srikant Ramasubramanian
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