Thread: Weird output from Gprof

Hi,
My program's Gprof output is a little weird!

Code:

Call graph (explanation follows)


granularity: each sample hit covers 4 byte(s) for 50.00% of 0.02 seconds

index % time    self  children    called     name
                0.01    0.01      10/10          main [2]
[1]    100.0    0.01    0.01      10         route_aggregation_main [1]
                0.00    0.01      10/10          route_to_file [4]
                0.00    0.00      10/10          access_file_insert_data [19]
                0.00    0.00      10/10          route_processing [25]
                0.00    0.00      10/10          route_aggregate [24]
                0.00    0.00      10/10          display [22]
-----------------------------------------------
                                                 <spontaneous>
[2]    100.0    0.00    0.02                 main [2]
                0.01    0.01      10/10          route_aggregation_main [1]
                0.00    0.00      10/10          append_to_file [20]
                0.00    0.00      10/10          map_notify_packet_initialization [23]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           recved_map_register_packet_initialization [32]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.01    0.00      10/10          route_to_file [4]
[3]     50.0    0.01    0.00      10         delegation_aggregation_main [3]
                0.00    0.00      20/20          is_virtual_ip [16]
                0.00    0.00      10/10          Delegation_select_query [18]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.01      10/10          route_aggregation_main [1]
[4]     50.0    0.00    0.01      10         route_to_file [4]
                0.01    0.00      10/10          delegation_aggregation_main [3]
                0.00    0.00      10/10          db_access_main [21]
                0.00    0.00      10/10          vtysh_input [28]
-----------------------------------------------

Now, as far as I know, "%time" column shows the percentage of the `total' time that was spent in this function and its children. Then how can both index 1 and 2 show 100. What does this mean? Note that, this profile has 32 indexes. I have omitted those because they show 0 in their %time column.

Bye.

GNU gprof - Interpreting gprof's Output

Perhaps you're not quite understanding what the call graph shows. It's the time of that function plus all it's children. I would guess that main calls route_aggregation_main and does little or nothing else. Thus you're seeing 100% of your time in main, and a number so close to 100% in route_aggregation_main that gprof just displays 100%.