[NBLUG/talk] Dramatic slow down moving from gcc 2.96 to 4.1.1

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:45:27PM -0800, Roger House wrote:
> What profiling tools might I use to see which system calls are taking so
> much time?

Oh, also: strace.

For profiling, use:
strace -c program

If your program does any kind of forking, you'll probably need to add -Ff to
the options.

I usually use strace to watch programs as they run; for that much more
noisy version, just leave the -c out.
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