Re: NPTL and oprofile

[William C. <wc...@nc...>]

Rajan Ravindran wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I am running RedHat AS 3.0 update 2,  I have used oprofile for linux 
> threads not for NPTL.
> Is oprofile works fine for NPTL?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rajan

I have been using OProfile on RHEL 3 machines successfully. OProfile 
doesn't care much about the underlying threading library. Profiling 
systems that do instrumentation like Valgrind usually need to know about 
which threading library is being used. OProfile doesn't have hooks into 
those routines, so it isn't as sensitive about changes in support libraries.

-Will