[sysprof] README: Update for current decade
- From: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <ssp src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [sysprof] README: Update for current decade
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:23:20 +0000 (UTC)
commit 7f9fa2c67604a6e04acbdd93922e7259731bfe5c
Author: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann daimi au dk>
Date: Mon Mar 11 13:19:35 2013 -0400
README: Update for current decade
README | 97 +++++----------------------------------------------------
sysprof.doap | 2 +-
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/README b/README
index 4384844..d54ce49 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -4,100 +4,21 @@ stacktraces which are then interpreted by the userspace program
See the Sysprof homepage:
- http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sandmann/sysprof/
+ http://sysprof.com/
for more information
-Please mail bug reports to
+Questions, patches and bug reports should be sent to the sysprof
+mailing list:
- Soren Sandmann (sandmann daimi au dk)
+ sysprof-list gnome org
-Also information about whether it works or doesn't work on your distribution
-would be appreciated.
-
-
-
-Requirements:
-
-- A Linux kernel version 2.6.9 or newer, compiled with profiling
- support, is required.
-
-- GTK+ 2.6.0 or newer is required
-
-- libglade 2.5.1 or newer is required
-
-
-Compiling:
-
-- Sysprof must be compiled with the same compiler that compiled the
- kernel it is going to be used with. Usually this is just the the
- system compiler, but if you have upgraded your kernel it is
- possible that the new kernel was compiled with a different compiler
-
- If the module is compiled with a different compiler than the one
- compiling the kernel, "modprobe sysprof-module" will produce this
- error message:
-
- insmod: error inserting './sysprof-module.o': -1 Invalid module format
+The list is archived here:
+ https://mail.gnome.org/archives/sysprof-list/
Debugging symbols
-- The programs and libraries you want to profile should have debugging
- symbols, or you won't get much usable information. On a Fedora Core system,
- installing the relevant <package>-debuginfo package should be sufficient.
- On Ubuntu and Debian, the debug packages are called <package>-dbg.
-
-- X server
-
- The X server as shipped by most distributions uses its own home-rolled
- module loading system and Sysprof has no way to deal with that, so if you
- run sysprof with your normal X server you won't get any information about
- how time is spent inside the X server.
-
- On Ubuntu and Debian there is a package, xserver-xorg-dbg, containing a
- binary called Xorg-debug that is built in such a way that sysprof can use
- it. On other systems, to get an X server with usable symbols you
- have to compile your own:
-
- (1) Compile the X server to use ".so" modules:
-
- - Uncomment the line "MakeDllModules Yes" in
- xc/config/cf/xorgsite.def.
-
- If you are compiling the CVS version of the X server
- (the one that will eventually become 6.9), then this is
- already the default.
-
- - "make World"
-
- - Don't run "make install" yet. (See below).
-
- (2) Make sure the new X server can't see any old ".a" files lying
- around. If you install on top of an existing installation, just do
-
- find /usr/X11R6/lib/"*.a" | sudo xargs rm
-
- then run "make install" as root to install the newly compiled
- X server.
-
- If a ".so" X server finds .a files in its module path it will
- try to load those in preference to .so files and this causes
- symbol resolution problems
-
- (3) Run your new X server
-
- (4) Run sysprof as root. This is necessary because the X server binary
- for security reasons is not readable by regular users. I could tell
- you why, but then I'd have to kill you.
-
-
-Credits:
- Lorenzo Colitti for writing the sysprof-text program
- Diana Fong for the icon
- Mike Frysinger for x86-64 support
- Kristian H�gsberg for the first port to the 2.6 kernel.
- Owen Taylor for the symbol lookup code in memprof
-
-
-S�ren (sandmann daimi au dk)
+- The programs and libraries you want to profile should be compiled
+ with -fno-omit-frame-pointers and have debugging symbols available,
+ or you won't get much usable information.
diff --git a/sysprof.doap b/sysprof.doap
index f1533d5..92d2a99 100644
--- a/sysprof.doap
+++ b/sysprof.doap
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
<description>The Sysprof profiler is a statistical profiler based on
hardware performance counters in modern CPUs. Please see
- http://sysprof.com
+ http://sysprof.com
for more information.
</description>
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