Re: [Xen-users] decreasing Xenmon overhead

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Are there ways I can drastically reduce this overhead ? I
> > read somwhere about event overhead, using event masks and
> > python overhead,  but am not really sure how to use this
> > information to reduce the overhead.
>
> Perhaps write a C-program rather than using Python to fetch/format the
> information? That shouls improve it, but I guess you'll still see a
> noticable overhead if you sample the information every 100ms.

xentrace (for instance) just logs out data to a file, and does the formatting 
offline using a python script.  This is also a useful approach if you're 
getting data out at a high bandwidth.

Cheers,
Mark


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