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ckb-vm-signal-profiler

Linux signal based profiler for ckb-vm, note this is profiling ckb-vm itself, not the programs running in ckb-vm

11 releases (breaking)

new 0.121.0 Feb 5, 2025
0.119.0 Oct 25, 2024
0.118.0 Sep 18, 2024
0.117.0 Jul 30, 2024
0.112.1 Nov 22, 2023

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ckb-vm-signal-profiler

Signal based profiler for ckb-vm. Like gperftools, it uses a SIGPROF signal handler to suspend running CKB-VM programs so as to gather profiling data. One advantage of this solution, is that it requires no code injections into CKB-VM. However also due to this design choice, this profiler runs on Linux only for the moment.

See here for an example on using this library.

This library inherits a lot of the signal handler related code from pprof-rs library.

Notes

  • If anything weird happens when loading the generated profiling data, make sure you are using the golang based pprof at here, not the binary from gperftools with the same name.

Dependencies

~9–12MB
~227K SLoC