Unless already fixed, I remember this didn't work very well with SMP kernels. If you have problems try to use bsd.sp.
Luis. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
