[erlang-questions] profiling application

[jm]

jm wrote:
> Bengt Kleberg wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> I looked in the tools section of the manual and was left scratching my
> head. I even found fprof and dug up an example, but when I followed the
> example I only got numbers for some functions and didn't see any entries
> for the ones I know are where most of the functionality resides. It may
> have something to do with the processes being started through
> application:start/1 though.
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Ah, this rings a bell I think I may have seen this mentioned before.
> I'll take a look at this now.
> 

Running etop thusly

erl -sname etop -s etop -output text -lines 33 -node one@REDACTED

on the same machine as the node of interest I keep getting:

Erlang top dropped data 1922
Erlang top dropped data 1149
Erlang top dropped data 1147
Erlang top dropped data 966
Erlang top dropped data 1149
Erlang top dropped data 965
Erlang top dropped data 1149
Erlang top dropped data 966
Erlang top dropped data 1148


Thoughts?

Jeff.