Re: [RFC][PROTO][PATCH -tip 0/7] kprobes: support jump optimization on x86

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:06:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> [...]
> > I'm curious: what is the biggest kprobe count you've ever seen, in 
> > the field? 1000? 10,000? 100,000? More?
> 
> The limit is iirc how much memory the gcc compiling the probes program
> consumes before running out of swap space.

On a machine with lots of free RAM, gcc will not hold itself back.  On
my home server, a 40000-kprobe script compiled (pass 4) in about 4
seconds using about 200MB RAM.

- FChE
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