How to find out what mach_msg_trap waits for?

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PeyloW picture PeyloW · Sep 28, 2009 · Viewed 21.5k times · Source

I a profiling my iPhone application on target, and according to Instruments 65% of the time is spent in mach_msg_trap.

I have a background thread that runs-forever and send results back to the main thread using performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone:, aproximately every 2 seconds. I am not waiting until done.

Answer

PeyloW picture PeyloW · Sep 30, 2009

Turn out my app is not actually spending 65% of it's time in the mach_msg_trap function. It was a configuration error in Instruments on my part.

The Sampler tool defaults to All Sample Counts, this will measure all threads regardless of their state.

Instead switch to Running Sample Times that will reflect the current actual workload. Screenshot of Instruments http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/qa/qa2009/images/qa1619_running_sample_times.png

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