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diff --git a/doc/ekg.mdwn b/doc/ekg.mdwn index 3bbea8614..508fd2e92 100644 --- a/doc/ekg.mdwn +++ b/doc/ekg.mdwn @@ -12,3 +12,20 @@ Note that since only one process can open port 4242 at a time, running more than one git-annex process with EKG support at the same time can result in some "resource busy (Address already in use)" messages -- but git-annex will continue to work. + +---- + +## full profiling + +For the really tricky memory leaks, here's how to make a profiling build of +git-annex. + +1. `cabal configure` with only the flags you really need +2. `cabal build --ghc-options="-prof -auto-all -caf-all"` + This will probably fail due to some missing profiling libraries. + You have to get the profiling versions of all needed haskell libraries + installed somehow. +3. Run git-annex with the special flags `+RTS -hc -p` +4. Reproduce the memory leak problem. +5. If the assistant was run, stop it. +6. `hp2ps -e8in -c git-annex.hp` to generate a .ps graph of memory usage. |