[Mono-list] Problems with mono log pofiler

[Rodrigo Kumpera]

Try disabling counters too, they can produce quite a lot data

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Grzegorz Sobański <silk at boktor.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are looking for a source of memory leak in our app. Unfortunately we
> have problems with stability when using mono profiler.
> After running the app for about 5 minutes with the profiler enabled, it
> stops answering requests, don't crash, but just stops working. (Without
> profiling it will run for hours).
>
> So I have few questions:
> 1. Is this some known problem with stability while profiling?
> 2. Even when launched as:
>   mono --gc=sgen --profile=log:heapshot,heapshot=ondemand program.exe
> profiler still generates around 50MB/min output (specifying
> noalloc,nocalls does not change it).
> Is it possible to launch profiler in mode heapshot=ondemand with
> everything else disabled? I would in effect like to minimize profiler
> impact, preferably to zero in normal run, and only do two heap snapshots
> (at start and after an hour).
>
> Running on mono 3.12, Ubuntu 14.04.
>
> Best regards
>
> --
> Grzegorz
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