From: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:59:07 +0000 (+0400)
Subject: cmd/go: better advice for heap profiling
X-Git-Tag: go1.3beta1~784
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e56e4e01935be3c310e5767e90411c76aaa1690d;p=gostls13.git

cmd/go: better advice for heap profiling

R=golang-codereviews, bradfitz
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/60760048
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diff --git a/src/cmd/go/test.go b/src/cmd/go/test.go
index dfd24d836c..8e5d003031 100644
--- a/src/cmd/go/test.go
+++ b/src/cmd/go/test.go
@@ -168,9 +168,7 @@ control the execution of any test:
 	    Enable more precise (and expensive) memory profiles by setting
 	    runtime.MemProfileRate.  See 'godoc runtime MemProfileRate'.
 	    To profile all memory allocations, use -test.memprofilerate=1
-	    and set the environment variable GOGC=off to disable the
-	    garbage collector, provided the test can run in the available
-	    memory without garbage collection.
+	    and pass --alloc_space flag to pprof tool.
 
 	-outputdir directory
 	    Place output files from profiling in the specified directory,