On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:00 PM, David Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > is there a convenient way to display CPU cache statistics in openbsd? > like the amount of L1/L2 hits/misses? there's OProfile for linux, Vtune > for Linux/Windows, cachekit for Solaris, but what's available for the > best OS out there? > > sure i could read the intel manuals on accessing the special > performance registers to find out. but time is limited. i've searched > manpages and on the web without any "cache hits" so to speak.
Did you try searching for the subject of your message? $ apropos 'cpu performance counters' pctr (1) - display CPU performance counters pctr (4/AMD64) - driver for CPU performance counters pctr (4/i386) - driver for CPU performance counters $ Philip Guenther
