System Overload

Questions about YourKit Java Profiler
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elidan1
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System Overload

Post by elidan1 »

We are trying to profile a "medium size" application running on Tomcat 5.
The problem is that the profiler seems to add an inordinate amount of load to the system - response times up to 30 seconds for a 10 users load created with jmeter. We can run up to 75 concurrent users without the profiler.
Is this by design, or are we doing something wrong?
Vladimir Kondratyev
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Post by Vladimir Kondratyev »

Profiler overhead depends on the tasks you are performing. For example, recording of object allocations or CPU tracing can significially slow down the profiled application. So you do need to turn on recording of object allocations if you are not finding garbage allocation spots. "sampling" is also very good for CPU profiling (but is a bit less precise then tracing).
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