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Running go tool pprof with a cpu profile for https://github.com/vimeo/statsdaemon and typing "web" I get an svg profile with extensive use of "runtime.futex". But I can't see where it's coming from, it just says "System".

I want to know which code my program invokes, that causes so much time spent in runtime.futex.

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To be sure I passed '-nodefraction=0' which makes it not drop nodes in the web svg view, though it says "showing top 80 nodes out of 246 (cum >= 0.11s)", maybe this is related.

I tried https://code.google.com/p/gperftools/ and it shows the same. The viz drops no nodes or edges, but still "runtime.futex" just shows up under "System" and that's the root node?

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  • are you using osx? godoc.org/rsc.io/pprof_mac_fix Commented Apr 27, 2015 at 0:24
  • No, Arch Linux 3.18 64bit Commented Apr 27, 2015 at 0:58

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A futex or "Fast user space mutex" is a linux system call that is used for basic locking. I imagine the go runtime uses it quite a bit under the hood.

Without seeing some of the code it's hard to say for sure but for highly concurrent code with a lot of coordination using channels it's possible that the futex calls really are coming from System and no particular function.

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When I've faced with such issue I've used runtime/trace where I've see that some function was called very often and this function creates new ticker by

ticker := time.NewTicker()

but does not stop it by

defer ticker.Stop()

Also, don't forget to stop timers as well:

timer := time.NewTimer(duration)
defer timer.Stop()
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