Got the following today while using PMC to sample a multi-process web server on an SMP Xeon box: tiger-2# ./httpd 80 /tmp/zero & [1] 769 tiger-2# tiger-2# tiger-2# pmcstat -S unhalted-cycles -O /tmp/sample.out ^CNMI ... going to debugger [thread pid 898 tid 100175 ] Stopped at p4_stop_pmc+0x70: movl $0,%eax db> bt Tracing pid 898 tid 100175 td 0xc765c360 p4_stop_pmc(0,1,1,0,0) at p4_stop_pmc+0x70 pmc_release_pmc_descriptor(c703ca00,c06c03f3,c1032860,c103cac8,e992fb18) at pmc_release_pmc_descriptor+0x61 pmc_syscall_handler(c765c360,e992fd04,2,202,c09c07d8) at pmc_syscall_handler+0xf6f syscall(3b,3b,bfbf003b,0,8050ee0) at syscall+0x2ee Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x1f --- syscall (210, FreeBSD ELF32, pmc_syscall_handler), eip = 0x280d104d, esp = 0xbfbfe6e0, ebp = 0xbfbfe6f8 --- db> I'll leave it in the debugger overnight in case there's anything useful to be done with it. BTW, saw some oddness. I capture the PMC samples on one box, and post-process on another. This results in the following oddness: I used the above pmcstat command to track unhalted-cycles on a Dual Xeon, then post-processed on an amd64 box, so pmcstat generated gmon output with the name p4-global-power-events. Perhaps pmcstat should capture the event name in its data file so that when doing later post-processing, it can use the names from the machine the captures were on, rather than the names of the machine the processing is being done on? Robert N M WatsonReceived on Sat May 20 2006 - 20:34:59 UTC
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