HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes (October 2003)

General System Administration
HP Partitioning
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You will also see better Caliper startup and runtime performance in many cases and
smaller memory footprint. The source correlation and inline information are more
accurate in several cases, and reports include various usability improvements like an
additional cumulative percentage column and more consistent address/offset
information.
Caliper 3.0 supports startup files where the user can specify common configuration,
measurement and report formatting options. Caliper 3.0 supports both automatic and
user-triggered printing into a report of the data gathered thus far for some failure
modes. Various bug fixes are also included in this release (including a kernel fix to speed
up Caliper performance with large page applications).
Machines Affected
Itanium 1 machines with HP-UX 11i v1.5 OS and compiler tool chain and libraries are
not supported.
Compatibility
Caliper 3.0 is not supported on HP-UX 11i v1 systems and 11i v1 compilers.
Performance
Performance & memory usage may improve by up to 2x in some cases.
Documentation
For more product information, go to http://www.hp.com/go/hpcaliper.
Online documentation is in /opt/caliper/doc. The following documentation is
available at
http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/dev/index.html#Performance%20Tools%20and%20L
ibraries:
• HP Caliper User Guide
• HP Caliper Release Notes
Obsolescence
Not applicable.
HP Partitioning
Partitioning provides the ability to subdivide system resources into isolated regions that
operate independently from each other (the equivalent of a box within a box). HP is the
only high end UNIX offering to provide a broad range of solutions designed to meet the
diverse needs of our customers. Changes to these solutions are described in the following
sub-sections:
• “HP Process Resource Manager” on page 72