[Samba] performance regression between 30.14a and 3.0.20

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Mar 31 19:55:47 GMT 2006


On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 02:32:44PM -0500, Greg Dickie wrote:
> 
> I am unfamiliar with cachegrind but I assume this is just a profiler. Do
> you have to compile instrumentation into smbd?

No, that's why it's so powerful. It's part of the valgrind suite,
which emulates a complete x86 cpu as an LD_PRELOAD. You get *complete*
information about all CPU activity, even though it runs 10x slower
than usual (but I only care about relative changes so that's not
an issue here).

> Have fun in Boston, great city.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.


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