slow execution of built executables on a Mac

[Richard Eisenberg]

OK. I've posted a bug: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15891 <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15891>

Thanks much for the attempts thus far!
Richard

> On Nov 11, 2018, at 8:13 AM, George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I couldn't duplicate this, when system times were high they were usually between 20-40% which seems high but not 80%. I am on Xcode 10.1, macOS 10.13.6 , a 4 core imac with 12 gb RAM and a hard drive not SSDs. I can't go to Mojave as it is an old iMac. I did make -j5 using ghc 8.6.2.
> 
> The Mac doesn't have truss or strace. It does have dtrace which I believe is the equivalent. 
> 
> It might be good to open a ticket for this. As the description of how to reproduce are a bit vague and the steps are manual, it would be ideal if there were modified make file(s) to capture statistics using sample and maybe dtrace or even time. 
> 
> Cheers
> George
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 11:10 PM Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com <mailto:ben at well-typed.com>> wrote:
> Richard Eisenberg <rae at cs.brynmawr.edu <mailto:rae at cs.brynmawr.edu>> writes:
> 
> > OK. Well, I couldn't sample from Activity Monitor, because the
> > processes came and went too quickly. But the terminal command `sample`
> > takes a *name* as an argument, and so passing ghc-stage1 worked
> > nicely. Samples were taken during rts_dist_HC calls.
> >
> Hmmm, it looks to me like all of these are from GHC waiting on various
> things (e.g. _pthread_cond_wait, nanosleep, and pthread_join). It's
> quite surprising that these operations are chewing through cycles in
> kernel mode. I wonder how rapidly we are context switching. Perhaps we
> are quickly jumping between kernel and user mode? Perhaps strace (or I
> think the OS X equivalent is truss?) will shed some light?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Ben

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