[erlang-questions] Differences between erlang:system_profile and erlang:trace

[Magnus Klaar]

Hi!

As far as i can tell, this is fixed in
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/195be9a44f2481b9c575c8ad286f4d2278b831b3,
thanks.

MVH Magnus

2012/1/3 Björn-Egil Dahlberg <egil@REDACTED>

>  From what I remember (trying to recall something written five years ago)
> system_profile used to respect this policy but from looking at the code it
> seems like it doesn't now. The tracing and scheduler queues has been
> rewritten several times since then and it is possible that something has
> been lost.
>
> I will have a look at it. Thank you for reporting this.
>
> Regards,
> Björn-Egil
>
>
> On 2012-01-03 01:37, Magnus Klaar wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>  I'm seeing a strange behavior when using erlang:system_info/2 to trace
> the running processes on an erlang node. I know it's flagged as
> experimental so I will assume it's actually a feature even if the
> documentation does not agree. When a process is used to receive the profile
> messages from erlang:system_info/2 the receiving process is also profiled.
> The effect of this is that the process receiving the profile messages will
> receive an infinite sequence of 'inactive' ... 'active' ... 'inactive' ....
> messages from the runtime system. The manpage states that the "The
> receiver is excluded from all profiling.". I've compared this with using
> the erlang:trace/3 function to trace running processes, when this function
> is used the tracer processes never receives a message when the tracer
> process scheduled.
>
>  Two eunit tests for showing the difference:
> https://gist.github.com/1552673
>
>  Running "erl -noshell -s system_profile test -s init stop" on my system
> yields the following result:
>
>
>  system_profile.erl:30:<0.35.0>: Total: 525169, For tracer: 524824, For
> others: 345
>
>  system_profile:13: system_profile_test_...*failed*
> ::{assertion_failed,[{module,system_profile},
>                    {line,32},
>                    {expression,"SelfCount =:= 0"},
>                    {expected,true},
>                    {value,false}]}
>
>
>  system_profile.erl:58:<0.123.0>: Total: 338, For tracer: 0, For others:
> 338
>
>  =======================================================
>   Failed: 1.  Skipped: 0.  Passed: 1.
>
>
>  My questions are: Am I using it wrong? If so, how should it be used? If
> not, Is it a bug?
>
>  MVH Magnus
>
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