Re: speedprof 'Record' button ...

["John Berthels" <jjberthels gmail com>]

On 29/04/06, michael meeks <michael meeks novell com> wrote:
>         What's happened to memprof ? is there any real development ongoing,we
> have a number of outstanding fixes to make stuff work, pwrt. threading
> etc. Is this maintained ? and/or can one tag
> 'last-hope-before-meeks-mangles-it' and commit stuff ? :-)

I don't know. I asked on #gnome-love and people seemed to think it was
effectively unmaintained. Various people (including me) have done
fixups and produced patches which seem to be floating around, some of
which have been posted to this list.

Rasterman did some fixups and has posted a tree:
http://www.rasterman.com/index.php?page=Memprof
(version 0.5.9!?)


I would guess that the GNOME cvs is the primary repository:

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/memprof/?sortby=date#dirlist

It doesn't look as though it has received significant change for 19 months.

When I asked around, I got the impression that people had moved to
other tools (valgrind/massif mainly). If there was demand, I'd be
interested in helping improve/maintain memprof.

There are various interesting things which could be done - e.g. allow
the comms with the traced process to flow over a TCP socket instead of
a Unix domain socket to allow tracing of processes on systems which
can't easily host gtk+ (e.g. embedded systems).


I recall reading somewhere that it suffered more than most programs
from bitrot because of its close relationship with system internals -
perhaps those who have maintained it have written it off for this, or
another, reason.

regards,

jb