Hi Sascha,

Profiler is a tool that monitors all the CPU happenings(time taken, resources used etc..) while a OS activity(like i/o acceess etc..) is being executed and reports them in a detailed user friendly way...

It is generally used in the development stage to improve the efficiency of the code, depending upon the reports generated.

Sascha Retzki <sretzki@gmx.de> wrote:

> Thanks Sascha Retzki, for such a immediate reply...
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> But, i'm more interested to do memory, drivers etc.

Oh, okay. There is the sparc64 port which needs some love, for instance. :-)

What about something which comes with complete 'layers' of stuff, like AC97 (this software-audio stuff)?

There is also SATA, I just know of one SATA-controller supported, just because it happen to behave pretty like his grandfather or something (the listarchive has the details)...

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> I also wanted to know how good it would be if i do something like a profiler for a subset of functionalities for plan 9?

What do you mean by 'profile(r)'?

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>> I mean, it'll be like i get to do something nw and also will be able to give it back to open source...
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> graphicssupport for acme! :)
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