Added, bug # 205937.

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Stephane Belmon

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Nethercote [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 3:21 PM
To: Belmon, Stephane
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Valgrind-users] Uniformity of inter-snapshot times in Massif

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Belmon, Stephane<[email protected]> wrote:
> When Massif culls "old" snapshots, it drops about half of them, and then 
> resets its period to the MIN() of the inter-snapshots times.
>
> For long runs, that has somewhat unexpected consequences. You can easily end 
> up with 75 snapshots that are about a minute apart, and then have the last 25 
> about 20 seconds apart for example (or worse). Graphs which don't look at the 
> "time=X" can then be a bit misleading -- and that includes ms_print's I 
> believe, Martijn's massifplot, and I'd expect most homegrown tools.

Hmm, interesting, I didn't realise that could happen.

Would you mind filing a bug for this?
(http://www.valgrind.org/support/bug_reports.html)

Nick


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