Re: [dev] [OT] performance monitoring using hardware counters [SOLVED]

2012-09-04 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 01:21:39AM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 06:29:32AM +0200, Valentin Ochs wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 05:34:26PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > Thanks for the reply. > > > > > > Played around with Systemtap and it seems to have what I ne

Re: [dev] [OT] performance monitoring using hardware counters

2012-08-31 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 06:29:32AM +0200, Valentin Ochs wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 05:34:26PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. > > > > Played around with Systemtap and it seems to have what I need. However, > > I can't get user space probing to work! Apparently, you

Re: [dev] [OT] performance monitoring using hardware counters

2012-08-31 Thread Valentin Ochs
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 05:34:26PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > Played around with Systemtap and it seems to have what I need. However, > I can't get user space probing to work! Apparently, you need > uprobes/utrace support, which debian kernels don't have. cd /usr

Re: [dev] [OT] performance monitoring using hardware counters

2012-08-31 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Thanks for the reply. Played around with Systemtap and it seems to have what I need. However, I can't get user space probing to work! Apparently, you need uprobes/utrace support, which debian kernels don't have. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 04:32:11PM -0400, Carlos Torres wrote: > On Solaris there is

Re: [dev] [OT] performance monitoring using hardware counters

2012-08-31 Thread Carlos Torres
On Solaris there is dtrace, Linux provides something similar, but I forget what it's called...there might be a port of dtrace for Linux. System tap. --Carlos On Aug 31, 2012 3:22 PM, "Amit Uttamchandani" < amit.uttamchand...@my.csun.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > Would you be able to share your though

[dev] [OT] performance monitoring using hardware counters

2012-08-31 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hello, Would you be able to share your thoughts/experiences on performance monitoring using hardware counters in Linux? I am currently using *perf* tools that come built in with the kernel to measure the number of cycles a specific program takes. Now, I can't seem to figure out how to measure th