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| author | Lukas Larsson <[email protected]> | 2018-05-21 16:56:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Lukas Larsson <[email protected]> | 2018-05-21 16:56:41 +0200 |
| commit | 29871fb6086b535104b10703dd524781e87e0800 (patch) | |
| tree | 1436b47255d78be4f1b35a8364b5eec024d863d9 /lib | |
| parent | 9cc697fe2cda12ed2d32fb134ed5584f248f9377 (diff) | |
| parent | d5dc5584884488c8fcb5710997a14c2c418692f3 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'lukas/erts/cpu_time_thread/OTP-15090'
* lukas/erts/cpu_time_thread/OTP-15090:
erts: Make cpu_timestamp use per thread on Linux
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/tools/doc/src/fprof.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/fprof.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/fprof.xml index 4c9e48045e..72624bd33b 100644 --- a/lib/tools/doc/src/fprof.xml +++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/fprof.xml @@ -328,10 +328,16 @@ purposes. This option is only allowed with the <c>start</c> option.</item> <tag><c>cpu_time</c>| <c>{cpu_time, bool()}</c></tag> - <item>The options <c>cpu_time</c> or <c>{cpu_time, true></c> + <item>The options <c>cpu_time</c> or <c>{cpu_time, true}</c> makes the timestamps in the trace be in CPU time instead of wallclock time which is the default. This option is - only allowed with the <c>start</c> option.</item> + only allowed with the <c>start</c> option. + <warning><p>Getting correct values out of cpu_time can be difficult. + The best way to get correct values is to run using a single + scheduler and bind that scheduler to a specific CPU, + i.e. <c>erl +S 1 +sbt db</c>.</p> + </warning> + </item> <tag><c>{procs, PidSpec}</c>| <c>{procs, [PidSpec]}</c></tag> <item>Specifies which processes that shall be traced. If this option is not given, the calling process is |