Terminally slow (75 seconds) on some steps

[Robert Vazan]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:56:27 -0400 Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> wrote:

> 11 seconds per step?  Still painfully slow :-(

11 seconds for application startup. That's gdb's cpu time. Application
has 0 seconds of run time. Later some steps take 2 seconds, but some
steps are interactive. The unusual thing is that my application freezes
for those 2 seconds and then does the rest very quickly. That's without
any breakpoints, just running it in debugger.

> What exactly is the system your using?  Can you capture 
> strace/ktrace/truss output for GDB doing a stepi?

I have no clue what are above three tools, but stepi is interactive. At
least I didn't bother to find the point where those 2 seconds are spent.

> By `locks' you mean?

System native mutexes, I guess.