Errors when generating mixed mode Flame Graphs - performance

I'm trying to generate some mixed mode flame graphs on a Linux machine (CentOS 7) and running into some issues.
I'm following instructions from this link: https://www.slideshare.net/brendangregg/java-performance-analysis-on-linux-with-flame-graphs (starting from slide 47).
when I run the below command to collect perf data:
perf record -F 997 -a -g --sleep <time in seconds>; jmaps
It seems to generate perf.data with no errors. However, when I try to process the perf.data by running the below command,
perf script --input=perf.data > out.stacks01
it shows me below messages:
/tmp/libnetty-transport-native-epoll6943913993058681852.so was updated (is prelink enabled?). Restart the long running apps that use it!
corrupted callchain, skipping
Does anyone have any idea what these messages mean?

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Bad performance of Chromium after compiling

I want to compile Chromium for windows with different patches from different projects for myself (at least for today). I follow this official instruction:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/windows_build_instructions.md
All steps successfully passed, but i get awful low perfomance. In speeDOMeter benchmark (https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/) my build get only 5 points, while official build get 116! This is commands for GIT what i use:
gclient
mkdir chromium && cd chromium
fetch --no-history chromium
cd src
gn gen --ide=vs out/Default "--args=target_cpu=\"x86\""
autoninja -C out/Default chrome -j 6
What i was try and this is not help:
Delete depot tools folder, and start over
Decrease -j from 10 to 8 and to 6
Delete argument --ide=vs
Fetch with history
Use command "gn gen" without --args part
Disable windows defender & firewall
As Asesh correctly noted, the problem was in debug mode. But adding key "is_debug=false" to gn gen command is not enough. The best solution will be the adding "is_official_build=true" key. Here is description:
is_official_build
Current value (from the default) = false
From //build/config/BUILDCONFIG.gn:136
Set to enable the official build level of optimization. This has nothing
to do with branding, but enables an additional level of optimization above
release (!is_debug). This might be better expressed as a tri-state
(debug, release, official) but for historical reasons there are two
separate flags.
IMPORTANT NOTE: (!is_debug) is *not* sufficient to get satisfying
performance. In particular, DCHECK()s are still enabled for release builds,
which can halve overall performance, and do increase memory usage. Always
set "is_official_build" to true for any build intended to ship to end-users.
Thanks Asesh for pointing me in the right direction.

Multiple problems installing TeX Live 2021 on Windows 10

I have a Windows 10 laptop where no TeX distribution was ever installed before (double-checked for config directories, files, and environment variables).
Wanting to install TeX Live 2021, I followed the full installation guide and also read the Windows-specific warnings. I've now tried several times, following different installation procedures - cleaning up everything (deleting base & user directories, environment variables, etc) before each time - but still don't manage to get a working installation. Before I report a bug at tex-live#tug, I wanted to ask for advice here, in case I'm doing something wrong. Here is what I did, step by step, and the problems I encountered in the process.
1. First I tried running the recommended online installer install-tl-windows.exe. It never got past the screen that tries to contact or load from a repository, even after a 30-min wait. Tried a dozen times, choosing different mirrors nearby and far away. No luck.
2. Then I downloaded and unpacked the install-tl.zip and run install-tl-windows.bat therein. This time the main installation window appeared. I left all default paths and environment variables (note that I do have write access to C:); in the selection scheme I unselected all languages except US & UK English, unselected XeTeX, LuaTeX, ConTeXt; also unselected TeXworks (I use Emacs), and clicked Install. After one to three hours (depending on the mirror I chose), the installation was complete.
I tried compiling a minimal latex document (see below), and got an error similar to the one in this old question:
I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'
Following the advice in the answers to that question and similar questions elsewhere online such as this, I tried running texhash and fmtutil-sys --all. The latter gave the error
no appropriate script or programme found fmtutil.
for which there are also many posts online.
2a. Not understanding what the problem could be, I re-tried with all possible combinations of the following three options: (a) choosing different mirrors; (b) leaving the full selection of packages (ie without unselecting some languages, LuaTeX etc); (c) redoing the procedure by choosing "Run as Administrator". No luck.
3. At this point I tried downloading the ISO file with the full installation. Mounted the image and run install-tl-windows.bat (as normal user, as recommended; I repeat that I do have write access to C:). Everything proceeded as in step 2. above. At the end of the installation I tried running pdflatex on the minimal latex document. New error this time:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021/W32TeX) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./minimal-template.tex
LaTeX2e <2020-10-01> patch level 4
L3 programming layer <2021-02-18>
! LaTeX Error: File `article.cls' not found.
Very strange. A file search revealed that article.cls is in the TeXLive file system; but kpathsea did not see it indeed.
4. At this point I opened the TeX Live Shell from the Start Menu; selected a CTAN mirror; updated the TL Manager which was not up to date; updated all packages; run Regenerate filename database; and run Regenerate formats. With the latter I got this error:
tex live shell:
mtutil [INFO]: total formats: 59
fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 53
C:\texlive\2021\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:915: command failed with exit code 53:
perl.exe c:\texlive\2021\texmf-dist\scripts\texlive\fmtutil.pl --sys --all
Here is a snip from the full set of errors appearing in the "Other" tab (I'm replacing my user directory with asterisks for privacy; note that I do have write access to these directories):
start load https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/TeX/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
finish load https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/TeX/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
start load http://contrib.texlive.info/current
finish load http://contrib.texlive.info/current
running mktexlsr ...
done running mktexlsr.
running mtxrun --generate ...
done running mtxrun --generate.
running updmap-sys ...
done running updmap-sys.
regenerating fmtutil.cnf in C:/texlive/2021/texmf-dist
running fmtutil-sys --byengine luatex --no-error-if-no-format --no-error-if-no-engine=luajithbtex,luajittex,mfluajit --status-file=C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\Temp\rPSb0Dpak2\WW_dJvUHgX ...
tlmgr.pl: fmtutil-sys --byengine luatex --no-error-if-no-format --no-error-if-no-engine=luajithbtex,luajittex,mfluajit --status-file=C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\Temp\rPSb0Dpak2\WW_dJvUHgX failed (status 255), output:
Unknown option: status-file
Try "fmtutil --help" for more information.
C:\texlive\2021\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:915: command failed with exit code 255:
perl.exe c:\texlive\2021\texmf-dist\scripts\texlive\fmtutil.pl --sys --byengine luatex --no-error-if-no-format --no-error-if-no-engine=luajithbtex,luajittex,mfluajit --status-file=C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\Temp\rPSb0Dpak2\WW_dJvUHgX
running fmtutil-sys --byengine luajithbtex --no-error-if-no-format --no-error-if-no-engine=luajithbtex,luajittex,mfluajit --status-file=C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\Temp\rPSb0Dpak2\WW_dJvUHgX ...
I tried to continue anyway with Regenerate fontmaps, and then tried again pdflatex on the minimal document. New error:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.23 (TeX Live 2021/W32TeX) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
---! c:/texlive/2021/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt made by different executable version
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
5. I tried again steps 3. and 4., but with "Run as Administrator". Same errors.
OK at this point I give up and really don't know what to do. Am I doing something wrong? For the moment I have to concur with this post: installation of TeX Live 2021 is an utter failure.
Here is the minimal latex file I used for testing (copy & paste):
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
test
\section{Section}
test
\end{document}
Found, that the download is not working because the system path to "cmd.exe" is not found. Therefore: open a cmd window and add the system path prior to starting the .bat file (set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Windows\system32)

SBCL: building a standalone executable

How do I build a standalone executable in SBCL? I've tried
; SLIME 2.20
CL-USER> (defun hullo ()
(format t "hullo"))
HULLO
CL-USER> (sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die "hullo" :toplevel #'hullo :executable t)
but that just produces the following error.
Cannot save core with multiple threads running.
Interactive thread (of current session):
#<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {10019563F3}>
Other threads:
#<THREAD "Swank Sentinel" RUNNING {100329E073}>,
#<THREAD "control-thread" RUNNING {1003423A13}>,
#<THREAD "reader-thread" RUNNING {1003428043}>,
#<THREAD "swank-indentation-cache-thread" RUNNING
{1003428153}>,
#<THREAD "auto-flush-thread" RUNNING {1004047DA3}>,
#<THREAD "repl-thread" RUNNING {1004047FA3}>
[Condition of type SB-IMPL::SAVE-WITH-MULTIPLE-THREADS-ERROR]
What am I doing wrong?
What you are doing wrong is trying to save an image while multiple threads are running. Unlike many errors in Lisp the error message explains exactly what the problem is.
If you look up the function in the sbcl manual here then you find that indeed one may not save an image with multiple threads running. The extra threads come from swank (the CL half of SLIME). The manual says that you may add functions to *save-hooks* which destroy excess threads and functions to *init-hooks* to restore threads.
One way around all this is to not save the image when it is running through slime but instead to start sbcl directly at a terminal (note: no readline support), load your program and save from there.
Working with slime is different. In theory there is a SWANK-BACKEND:SAVE-IMAGE function but I’m not sure if that works. Also as saving an image kills the process you may want to fork (SB-POSIX:FORK) first, unless you are on Windows. But forking causes problems due to not being well specified and file descriptor issues (i.e. if you try fork->close swank connection->save and die then you may find that the connection in the parent process is closed (or worse, corrupted by appearing open but being closed at some lower level)). One can read about such things online. Note that due to the way sbcl threads are implemented, forking clones only the thread that forks and the other threads are not cloned. Thus forking and then saving should work but may cause problems when running the executable due to partial slime state.
You may be interested in buildapp.
If you want to be able to use slime with your saved application you can load swank and start listening on a socket or port (maybe with some command line argument) and then in Emacs you may connect to that swank backend with slime.
You have to run save-lisp-and-die from a new sbcl, not from Slime. Dan Robertson explains more.
It is cumbersome the first time, but you can put it in a Makefile and re-use it. Don't forget to load your dependencies.
build:
sbcl --load cl-torrents.asd \
--eval '(ql:quickload :torrents)' \
--eval '(use-package :torrents)' \ # not mandatory
--eval "(sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die #p\"torrents\" :toplevel #'main :executable t)"
The quickload implies Quicklisp is already loaded, which may be the case if you installed Quicklisp on your machine, because then your ~/.sbclr contains quicklisp loading script ((load quicklisp-init)).
However sb-ext is not portable across implementations. asdf:make is the cross-platform equivalent. Add this in your .asd system definition:
:build-operation "program-op" ;; leave as is
:build-pathname "<binary-name>"
:entry-point "<my-package:main-function>"
and then call asdf:make to build the executable.
You can have a look at buildapp (mentioned above), a still popular app to do just that, for SBCL and CCL. It is in Debian. http://lisp-lang.org/wiki/article/buildapp An example usage looks like
buildapp --output myapp \
--asdf-path . \
--asdf-tree ~/quicklisp/dists \
--load-system my-app \
--entry my-app:main
But see also Roswell, a more general purpose tool, also supposed to build executables, but it is less documented. https://roswell.github.io/
If you want to build an executable on a CI system (like Gitlab CI), you may appreciate a lisp Docker image which has already SBCL, others lisps and Quicklisp installed, and if you want to parse command line arguments, see https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/testing.html#gitlab-ci and (my) tutorial: https://vindarel.github.io/cl-torrents/tutorial.html#org8567d07

Class "Veins::ObstacleControl" not found

I have followed step by step the tutorial to install Veins, but when I tried running the example scenario (final step) I ended up with the above error.
The whole error was:
Error in module (cModule) RSUExampleScenario (id=1) during network
setup: Class "Veins::ObstacleControl" not found -- perhaps its code
was not linked in, or the class wasn't registered with
Register_Class(), or in the case of modules and channels, with
Define_Module()/Define_Channel().
TRAPPING on the exception above, due to a debug-on-errors=true
configuration option. Is your debugger ready?
Simulation terminated with exit code: -2147483645 Working directory:
C:/Users/user/src/veins-4.3/examples/veins Command line:
../../../omnetpp-4.6/bin/opp_run.exe -r 0 -n .;../../src/veins
--tkenv-image-path=../../images -l ../../src/veins omnetpp.ini
I don't think I have missed a step during the tutorial as I have tried it two times. I did not make any change in anything, I've just strictly followed the tutorial like a robot, so I cannot provide an MCVE with more details than the tutorial.
Here is what I'm using:
- Windows 7 Pro 64 bits
- SUMO 0.25.0 64 bits
All other steps of the tutorial successfully worked until the final step.
I assume this error occurs when running Veins via the OMNeT++ IDE. Or, if you have compiled it with GCC (The error does not happen if you use CLANG)
There are two ways to bypass this error:
Use the .run as executable from your examples directory, which calls veins/run and includes all the required libraries:
Use opp_run as executable and set dynamic libraries to the directory where libveins.so is located (usually src/veins)
PS: to answer #ChristopSommer questions: Veins::ObstacleControl appears in opp_run -l src/veins -h classes
This could be a solution too, but I never tested it: Compiler flags in Eclipse

Travis-ci boost log compilation with biicode time-out

I am using travis-ci and biicode to build my project who is depending on boost log. But boost log times are longer than 10 min so I get this message:
No output has been received in the last 10 minutes, this potentially indicates a
stalled build or something wrong with the build itself.
The build has been terminated
The build is working correctly, it's just that boost log is really long to compile with limited resources (I tried to compile it on a VM with 1 CPU and 2GB of RAM and it took almost more than 15 min)
I know this is happening because there is not enough verbose going on so I tried the following flags:
>bii cpp:build -- VERBOSE=1
In the CMakeList.txt, set BII_BOOST_VERBOSE ON as mentionnened here
Set BOOST_LOG_COMPILE_FAST_ON as explained here
Using travis_wait
Actually travis_wait seems to be the correct solution but when I put it in my .travis.yml like this
script: travis_wait bii cpp:build
It does actually doesn't output logs like usually and just time out after 20 min. I don't think the actual building is taking place
What is the correct way to handle this problem?
This is a known issue, Boost.Log takes a long time to compile.
You can use travis_wait to call bii cpp:configure, but I'm with you, I need log feedback (No pun intended). However, I have tried that too and leaded to >50min build, which means travis aborts build on free accounts :( Of course my repo does not build Boost.Log only.
Just as a note, here's part of the settings.py file from the boost-biicode repo:
#Boost.Log takes so much time to compile, leads to timeouts on Travis CI
#It was tested on Windows and linux, works 'ok' (Be careful with linking settings)
if args.ci: del packages['examples/boost-log']
I'm currently working on a solution, launching asynchronous builds while printing progress. Check this issue. It will be ready for this week :)
To speed-up your build, try to play with BII_BOOST_BUILD_J variable to set the number of threads you want for building Boost components. Here's an example:
script:
- bii cpp:configure -DBII_BOOST_BUILD_J=4
Be careful, more threads means more RAM needed to compile at a time. Be sure you don't make the travis job VM go out of memory.

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