From: William Cohen <wcohen@nc.rr.com>
To: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@user.it.uu.se>,
perfctr-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Perfctr-devel] Re: perfctr-2.5.0 released
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:01:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E71EEBA.2040800@nc.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030314012502.GA20357@werewolf.able.es
You might also look at OProfile (http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/).
There is an option in the oprofpp command to dump data OProfile collects
in gprof format.
-Will
J.A. Magallon wrote:
>
> On 03.11, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>
>> Version 2.5.0 of perfctr, the Linux/x86 performance
>> monitoring counters driver, is now available at the usual
>> place: http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/perfctr/
>>
>
> Perhaps this has been asked for a million times, but I'm new to perfctrs...
> Is there any tool available to profile a program based on this ?
> I have seen perfex, but that gives total counts. I would like something
> like gprof... We are now optimizing some software and I would like to
> make my colleagues leave Windows (they use Intel's VTune) and go to
> Linux.
> Or at least compare the same kind of things between VTune on win and
> 'something' in Linux that also uses the counters. They don't seem to
> trust gprof. And, looking at the results, I'm beginning to untrust
> VTune...
>
> TIA
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-14 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-11 0:02 perfctr-2.5.0 released Mikael Pettersson
2003-03-14 1:25 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-03-14 4:36 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-16 16:47 ` [Perfctr-devel] " Hiro Yoshioka
2003-03-14 9:10 ` Nils Smeds
2003-03-14 15:01 ` William Cohen [this message]
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