X-Git-Url: http://wien.tomnetworks.com/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fmono.1;h=5ac6ea81002aa08bca26649d78f1ea3288f0fe8e;hb=HEAD;hp=e822ff94c89b2aa98b745633ab4fcff87fbdb2ba;hpb=8a10c623f3d392388235bec41817a7c42c9672d5;p=mono.git diff --git a/man/mono.1 b/man/mono.1 index e822ff94c89..5ac6ea81002 100644 --- a/man/mono.1 +++ b/man/mono.1 @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ mono_aot_register_module (mono_aot_module_hello_info); .I stats Print various stats collected during AOT compilation. .TP -.I temp_path=[path] +.I temp-path=[path] Explicitly specify path to store temporary files created during AOT compilation. .TP .I threads=[number] @@ -908,52 +908,11 @@ your profiler. For a sample of how to write your own custom profiler look in the Mono source tree for in the samples/profiler.c. .SH CODE COVERAGE -Mono ships with a code coverage module. This module is activated by -using the Mono --profile=cov option. The format is: -\fB--profile=cov[:assembly-name[/namespace]] test-suite.exe\fR -.PP -By default code coverage will default to all the assemblies loaded, -you can limit this by specifying the assembly name, for example to -perform code coverage in the routines of your program use, for example -the following command line limits the code coverage to routines in the -"demo" assembly: -.nf - - mono --profile=cov:demo demo.exe - -.fi -.PP -Notice that the -.I assembly-name -does not include the extension. -.PP -You can further restrict the code coverage output by specifying a -namespace: -.nf - - mono --profile=cov:demo/My.Utilities demo.exe - -.fi -.PP -Which will only perform code coverage in the given assembly and -namespace. -.PP -Typical output looks like this: -.nf - - Not covered: Class:.ctor () - Not covered: Class:A () - Not covered: Driver:.ctor () - Not covered: Driver:method () - Partial coverage: Driver:Main () - offset 0x000a - -.fi -.PP -The offsets displayed are IL offsets. -.PP -A more powerful coverage tool is available in the module `monocov'. -See the monocov(1) man page for details. +Mono ships with a code coverage module in the \f[I]coverage\f[] profiler. +To enable it, pass \fB--profile=coverage\fR to your mono invocation. It +will by default output a coverage.xml in the current directory. Use +\fBmono --profile=coverage:help sample.exe\fR for more information on the +different options. .SH AOT PROFILING You can improve startup performance by using the AOT profiler. .PP @@ -1309,10 +1268,19 @@ first generation (of two). A larger nursery will usually speed up the program but will obviously use more memory. The default nursery size 4 MB. .TP -\fBmajor=\fIcollector\fR Specifies which major collector to use. -Options are `marksweep' for the Mark&Sweep collector, and -`marksweep-conc' for concurrent Mark&Sweep. The non-concurrent -Mark&Sweep collector is the default. +\fBmajor=\fIcollector\fR +Specifies which major collector to use. +Options are `marksweep' for the Mark&Sweep collector, `marksweep-conc' +for concurrent Mark&Sweep and `marksweep-conc-par' for parallel and +concurrent Mark&Sweep. The concurrent Mark&Sweep collector is the default. +.TP +\fBmode=balanced|throughput|pause\fR[:\fImax-pause\fR] +Specifies what should be the garbage collector's target. The `throughput' +mode aims to reduce time spent in the garbage collector and improve +application speed, the `pause' mode aims to keep pause times to a minimum +and it receives the argument \fImax-pause\fR which specifies the maximum +pause time in milliseconds that is acceptable and the `balanced' mode +which is a general purpose optimal mode. .TP \fBsoft-heap-limit=\fIsize\fR Once the heap size gets larger than this size, ignore what the default @@ -1375,9 +1343,11 @@ more memory when it reaches a stable size. This option is EXPERIMENTAL, so it might disappear in later versions of mono. .TP \fBminor=\fIminor-collector\fR -Specifies which minor collector to use. Options are 'simple' which -promotes all objects from the nursery directly to the old generation -and 'split' which lets object stay longer on the nursery before promoting. +Specifies which minor collector to use. Options are `simple' which +promotes all objects from the nursery directly to the old generation, +`simple-par' which has same promotion behavior as `simple' but using +multiple workers and `split' which lets objects stay longer on the nursery +before promoting. .TP \fBalloc-ratio=\fIratio\fR Specifies the ratio of memory from the nursery to be use by the alloc space. @@ -2038,7 +2008,7 @@ http://www.mono-project.com/community/help/mailing-lists/ http://www.mono-project.com .SH SEE ALSO .PP -certmgr(1), cert-sync(1), csharp(1), gacutil(1), mcs(1), mdb(1), monocov(1), monodis(1), +certmgr(1), cert-sync(1), csharp(1), gacutil(1), mcs(1), mdb(1), monodis(1), mono-config(5), mprof-report(1), pdb2mdb(1), xsp(1), mod_mono(8). .PP For more information on AOT: