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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/tools/doc/src/lcnt_chapter.xml | 4 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/lcnt.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/lcnt.xml index 9c8ce148e9..6e66a957ab 100644 --- a/lib/tools/doc/src/lcnt.xml +++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/lcnt.xml @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ <modulesummary>A runtime system Lock Profiling tool.</modulesummary> <description> <p>The <c>lcnt</c> module is used to profile the internal ethread locks in the - Erlang Runtime System. With <c>lcnt</c> enabled, Internal counters in the + Erlang Runtime System. With <c>lcnt</c> enabled, internal counters in the runtime system are updated each time a lock is taken. The counters stores information about the number of acquisition tries and the number of collisions that has occurred during the acquisition tries. The counters also record the @@ -47,17 +47,17 @@ <p> The data produced by the lock counters will give an estimate on how well the runtime system will behave from a parallelizable view point for the - scenarios tested. This tool was mainly developed to help erlang runtime + scenarios tested. This tool was mainly developed to help Erlang runtime developers iron out potential and generic bottlenecks. </p> <p>Locks in the emulator are named after what type of resource they protect and where in the emulator they are initialized, those are lock 'classes'. Most of those locks are also instantiated several times, and given unique identifiers, to increase locking granularity. Typically an instantiated lock protects a disjunct set of - the resource, i.e ets-tables, processes or ports. In other cases it protects a - specific range of a resource, e.g. <c>pix_lock</c> which protects index to process + the resource, for example ets tables, processes or ports. In other cases it protects a + specific range of a resource, for example <c>pix_lock</c> which protects index to process mappings, and is given a unique number within the class. A unique lock in <c>lcnt</c> - is referenced by a name (class) and an identifier, <c>{Name, Id}</c>. + is referenced by a name (class) and an identifier: <c>{Name, Id}</c>. </p> <p>Some locks in the system are static and protects global resources, for example <c>bif_timers</c> and the <c>run_queue</c> locks. Other locks are dynamic and not diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/lcnt_chapter.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/lcnt_chapter.xml index 362f212963..1981d66117 100644 --- a/lib/tools/doc/src/lcnt_chapter.xml +++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/lcnt_chapter.xml @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ completed its access to the resource and unlocked it. The <c>lcnt</c> tool measures these lock conflicts. </p> <p> - Locks has an inherent cost in execution time and memory space. It takes time initialize, destroy, aquiring or releasing locks. To decrease lock contention it + Locks have an inherent cost in execution time and memory space. It takes time initialize, destroy, aquiring or releasing locks. To decrease lock contention it some times necessary to use finer grained locking strategies. This will usually also increase the locking overhead and hence there is a tradeoff between lock contention and overhead. In general, lock contention increases with the number of threads running concurrently. The <c>lcnt</c> tool does not measure locking overhead. </p> @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Erlang/OTP 20 [erts-9.0] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:10] [hipe <p>Once you have a lock counting enabled VM the module <c>lcnt</c> can be used. The module is intended to be used from the current running nodes shell. To access remote nodes use <c>lcnt:clear(Node)</c> and <c>lcnt:collect(Node)</c>. </p> <p>All locks are continuously monitored and its statistics updated. Use <c>lcnt:clear/0</c> to initially clear all counters before running any specific tests. This command will also reset the duration timer internally.</p> - <p>To retrieve lock statistics information use, <c>lcnt:collect/0,1</c>. The collect operation will start a <c>lcnt</c> server if it not already started. All collected data will be built into an erlang term and uploaded to the server and a duration time will also be uploaded. This duration is the time between <c>lcnt:clear/0,1</c> and <c>lcnt:collect/0,1</c>.</p> + <p>To retrieve lock statistics information, use <c>lcnt:collect/0,1</c>. The collect operation will start a <c>lcnt</c> server if it not already started. All collected data will be built into an Erlang term and uploaded to the server and a duration time will also be uploaded. This duration is the time between <c>lcnt:clear/0,1</c> and <c>lcnt:collect/0,1</c>.</p> <p>Once the data is collected to the server it can be filtered, sorted and printed in many different ways.</p> <p>See the <seealso marker="lcnt">reference manual</seealso> for a description of each function.</p> |