[lldb-dev] Problem with large sym files (dsymutil speed)

[Somorjai, Akos]

One more thing: the .o files for the main executable only are nearly 8 GBs
in size; am I allowed to upload such amount to radar?

Best,

Ákos 



On 9/26/11 7:09 PM, "Greg Clayton" <gclayton at apple.com> wrote:

>Ok, run the commands on your main executable that looks at all .o files
>and let me know what sizes it comes up with. I am guessing you probably
>can't file a bug and attach your executable and .o files? (no source
>would be needed). If I can reproduce the issue, I can fix it.
>
>Greg Clayton
>
>On Sep 26, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Somorjai, Akos wrote:
>
>> It's at least 39 MB-s; I can't tell exactly because dsymutil bails out
>>(the original problem).
>> I have a feeling that we are going in circles :)
>> 
>> Best, Ákos
>> 
>> 2011.09.26. dátummal, 18:57 időpontban "Greg Clayton"
>><gclayton at apple.com> írta:
>> 
>>> If you are linking a single architecture, unfortunately there isn't
>>>much you can do. Linking DWARF is a serialized process where we take
>>>DWARF from a bunch of .o files and then make a single out file. All
>>>DWARF sections have to be appended to one another and they have
>>>interdependencies, so even though dsymutil does use multi-threading to
>>>parse 8 .o files ahead, it doesn't help in the long run. clang and
>>>llvm-gcc make debug info that is around 4 times bigger that gcc, so
>>>this probably makes things worse for you guys.
>>> 
>>> How big is your dSYM file?
>>> 
>>> On Sep 26, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Somorjai, Akos wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Greg,
>>>> 
>>>> Another issue is dsymutil's speed; it takes about 10 minutes to run
>>>>it on
>>>> our main executable, which is more than unbearable. Is their anything
>>>>we
>>>> can do to reduce that time?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Akos
>>>> 
>>> 
>