Re: fetch questions - freezing

[Doug Cutting]

Ken van Mulder wrote:
As a side note, does anyone have any recommendations for profiling 
software? I've used the standard hprof, which slows down the process to 
much for my needs and jmp which seems pretty unstable.

I recommend 'kill -QUIT' as a poor-man's profiler.  With a few stack 
dumps you can usually get a decent idea of where the time is going.  If 
you want to get fancy you can 'kill -QUIT' every minute or so, then use 
'sort | uniq -c | sort -nv' so see where you're spending a lot of time.

Doug