[news.eclipse.technology.linuxtools] Re: OProfile on openSUSE 11.1

[Kent Sebastian <ksebasti@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Axel Mueller wrote:
> Some more things that do not work:
> - I cannot open the oprofiled log

See the previous message. Although, are you still getting the same SWT 
null argument error as before?

> - if I double click the session to save it a dialog appears to ask for 
> the session name but the OK button is greyed out; btw, this option is 
> *not* obvious and easy to find, I would prefer a right click options menu

Thanks for the suggestion :) Although I'm hesitant because only the 
default session can be saved to another name (limitation of opcontrol). 
Is 'OK' always greyed out even after you input a name? There should be 
an error message if so..

> One more thing. When I start profiling I am asked for the root password 
> 4(!) times. That is really annoying. Is it normal or just another error 
> in my setup?

On my machine entering the rootpw once via this consolehelper mechanism 
keeps the authentication for a few seconds, so I only notice it once. 
But indeed, opcontrol is run a few times before launching (and once 
after the launch finishes), so if the root auth is only given for a 
single command then you would see it multiple times. I will look into this.

As you can see, the need for root access to use oprofile causes some 
headaches when trying to use it in userspace.

> Please, feel free to use me as a beta tester.

Excellent, I certainly will ;)


Thanks for your help,

Kent