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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:36:13 +0200
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] syscall spikes
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On 4/17/07, Devon H. O'Dell <devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been having syscall spikes. It's really weird. There will be
> >40,000 in 1 second, (according to stats(8)) and it appears at a
> fairly regular interval. I've tried running kprof, but I'm not sure
> that it's running a global profile. Namely, when I come out of it, I
> have tons of time spent in ``halt'', with very, very few (<100)
> syscalls. Any ideas what I can do to find the culprit? It's gapping
> sound playback, which is really annoying.
>
> --dho
>