And another thing...

I kept getting  "now trying to kill convert pid..." error messages.
Turns out that there is only a 5s wait for the daemon to terminate,
which is nowhere near long enough if you have lot of symbols.

This fixed it, but a fixed time limit seems wrong:

diff --git a/pe_profiling/operf.cpp b/pe_profiling/operf.cpp
index 51f55a5..b12aadf 100644
--- a/pe_profiling/operf.cpp
+++ b/pe_profiling/operf.cpp
@@ -492,10 +492,10 @@ static end_code_t _kill_operf_read_pid(end_code_t rc)
                int option = WNOHANG;
                int wait_rc;
                gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
-               if (tv.tv_sec > start_time_sec + 5) {
+               if (tv.tv_sec > start_time_sec + 45) {
                        keep_trying = false;
                        option = 0;
-                       cerr << "now trying to kill convert pid..." << endl;
+                       cerr << "now trying to kill convert pid 45s..." << endl;

                        if (kill(operf_read_pid, SIGUSR1) < 0) {
                                perror("Attempt to stop operf-read process failed");

Andrew.


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