On Mar 1, 2010, at 12:54 AM, Richard Jones wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 04:16:03PM -0800, Warren Harris wrote:
>> I would like to determine what percentage of my application's cpu  
>> time
>> is spent in the garbage collector (for tuning purposes, but also just
>> to monitor the overhead). Is there any way to obtain this information
>> short of using gprof? Additional information provided by Gc.stat  
>> would
>> be ideal, or perhaps a Gc.alarm that was called at the beginning of
>> the gc cycle, but neither of these seem to exist.
>
> I would have to say what's wrong with using gprof?

What's wrong with it is that it provides no way to monitor gc overhead  
in an active service.

>
> On a related topic: Has anyone tried using SystemTap with userspace
> DTrace-compatible probes to measure anything about total kernel +
> userspace usage of OCaml programs?  ie, this sort of thing:
>
> http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/AddingUserSpaceProbingToApps
>
> but with OCaml programs.
>
> Rich.
>
> -- 
> Richard Jones
> Red Hat