Re: CPU Profiling with (j)visualvm

From:
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:52:59 -0500
Message-ID:
<nospam-D9C96E.10525820022011@news.aioe.org>
In article
<28ac8cf2-0ee9-4b12-abb5-101857e7bbc1@f15g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
 Marc van Dongen <dongen@cs.ucc.ie> wrote:

On Feb 19, 6:38??am, Marc van Dongen <don...@cs.ucc.ie> wrote:
[...]
Below I'm attaching the commands which I carried out so as to profile
the java application. The java application may be downloaded from
<http://csweb.ucc.ie:/~dongen/DebugMe.java>.
I've also uploaded two screen captures of the visualvm session:
<http://csweb.ucc.ie:/~dongen/DebugMe1.png> and
<http://csweb.ucc.ie:/~dongen/DebugMe2.png>.


I'm nonplussed. Running your example, I see no Logger invocations at all.

Using java.util.Timer as you did, I get the results below. In
particular, I see une, deux and trois invoked in the prescribed ratio
with reasonable self-times. I get comparable results with Ubuntu Linux.

<http://i52.tinypic.com/rlwcd5.png>

package news;

import java.util.*;

public final class DebugMe {

    private static Timer timer = createTimer();
    private static volatile int counter;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        while (true) {
            counter++;
        }
    }

    private static Timer createTimer() {
        timer = new Timer();
        TimerTask task = new TimerTask() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                une();
                deux(); deux();
                trois(); trois(); trois();
            }

            public void une() { counter++; }
            public void deux() { counter++; }
            private void trois() { counter++; }
        };
        timer.schedule(task, 1000L, 1000L);
        return timer;
    }
}

$ jvisualvm &
[1] 54722
$ java -cp build/classes news.DebugMe
Profiler Agent: JNI On Load Initializing...
Profiler Agent: JNI OnLoad Initialized successfully
Profiler Agent: Waiting for connection on port 5140 (Protocol version: 9)
Profiler Agent: Established local connection with the tool
^CProfiler Agent: Connection with agent closed
Profiler Agent: Connection with agent closed

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