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| author | William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> | 2009-01-28 16:03:01 -0500 |
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| committer | William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> | 2009-01-28 16:03:01 -0500 |
| commit | ff90b2974f841b92434cb46d89c39f08d01cc966 (patch) | |
| tree | 72f653b6e9922ff727b6f747b87f222156d5b57e /testsuite/systemtap.examples/index.txt | |
| parent | ffaf6b84d9a3820d538e2d20df0e19e7fd0607d8 (diff) | |
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Add the polling timeout example and update the catalog.
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diff --git a/testsuite/systemtap.examples/index.txt b/testsuite/systemtap.examples/index.txt index fce068b8..f45f4c43 100644 --- a/testsuite/systemtap.examples/index.txt +++ b/testsuite/systemtap.examples/index.txt @@ -211,3 +211,15 @@ keywords: profiling user-space and kernel-space. +profiling/timeout.stp - Show Processes Doing Polling Operations +keywords: profiling + + The timeout.stp script is based on a blog entry + (http://udrepper.livejournal.com/19041.html) mentioning a need for a + tool to help developers find applications that are polling. The + timeout.stp script monitors systemcall used for polling and records + the systemcalls that timed out rather than returned because some + action occurred. The script updates the screen once a second with the + top twenty processes. + + |