[erlang-questions] profiling application

[Bengt Kleberg]

On 2007-03-16 03:53, jm wrote:
> Can someone please point me to a tutorial on profiling applications in
> erlang. 

look at the tools section of the manual.
http://www.erlang.se/doc/doc-5.5/lib/tools-2.5/doc/html/index.html
what you want is fprof.


> 
> 1) How do I determine where the CPU and memory are going, ie where are
> the bottle necks?

the same section as above also has
instrument

another helpful module would be in observer
http://www.erlang.se/doc/doc-5.5/lib/observer-0.9.7/doc/html/index.html
and it is called etop.


bengt
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