Noam Rathaus wrote:
The only obvious one is that read() shown under strace, takes a
significant more time on the new machine than the old one
You can split the difference between the platforms into three groups:
Time spent in the kernel (0.032 seconds)
Time spent in userspace (7.761 seconds)
Time spent sleeping or otherwise scheduled out (7.287 seconds)
strace -c goes a long way, and works very hard, to show us information
that is not useful to us. It counts CPU time spent in system calls, not
actual wall time. What may provide a more useful output in this case is
-T, which will also count time in which the process was sleeping inside
a system call (which accounts for about half the slowdown).
The second half of the slowdown, the one done in user space, is more
difficult to trace without the sources (i.e. - the perl sources).
valgrind has a module for detecting what causes a slowdown, but I doubt
Noam wants to start analyzing perl to figure out what the different
areas actually mean.
Shachar
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz
<mailto:shac...@shemesh.biz>> wrote:
Noam Meltzer wrote:
the time output does looks like you have higher cpu usage for
some reason, so i agree with Shachar on this.
you can also try to pinpoint the place the cpu is spent.
strace and/or ltrace with the '-f -c' flags can help.
I'm not sure about ltrace, but strace will not help. Most of the
time is spent in user space, not in the kernel.
Strace may help if the problem is time spent in another process
(i.e. - while the main process is sleeping), but it seems Noam has
already tried that one and failed to spot any obvious candidates.
Shachar
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Shachar Shemesh
<shac...@shemesh.biz <mailto:shac...@shemesh.biz>> wrote:
Noam Rathaus wrote:
I know the time difference doesn't look too bad, but take a
bigger code set:
Fast:
real 0m1.682s
user 0m1.584s
sys 0m0.064s
Slow:
real 0m16.730s
user 0m9.345s
sys 0m0.096s
These times spell "CPU intensive". Does your library do
anything special? If you try to import a dummy library, does
this still happen?
Shachar
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