HP Caliper User's Guide

Diagnostics View .......................................................................................................50
Help View ..................................................................................................................50
Tips for Using Views.....................................................................................................51
Making Measurements.......................................................................................................52
Hints on How to Make Measurements.........................................................................52
Exploring Performance Data..............................................................................................53
Getting Performance Tuning Advice..................................................................................53
Getting Help.......................................................................................................................54
Starting the GUI..................................................................................................................54
Native (Local) GUI........................................................................................................55
Remote GUI...................................................................................................................55
4 HP Caliper Measurement Configuration Files...............................................................................57
Measurement Configuration Files Provided with HP Caliper...........................................57
Overview Measurement.....................................................................................................59
Simultaneous fprof Sampling on Multiple PMU Counters................................................61
Location of Measurement Configuration Files...................................................................61
Specifying Option Values in Measurement Configuration Files..................................62
Using the Command Line to Override Measurement Configuration File
Parameters.....................................................................................................................62
5 HP Caliper Options..................................................................................................................63
Basic Information About Options.......................................................................................63
Multiple Ways to Specify HP Caliper Option Values...................................................63
Hierarchy for Processing an Option Value...................................................................64
-d or --database...................................................................................................................64
-e or --duration....................................................................................................................65
-f or --options-file................................................................................................................65
-h or -?.................................................................................................................................66
-H or --help.........................................................................................................................66
-m or --metrics....................................................................................................................66
-m cpu_event..............................................................................................................66
-m event_set .....................................................................................................67
-o or --output-file................................................................................................................67
-p or --process.....................................................................................................................68
-r or --report-details............................................................................................................68
-r for PMU Histogram Reports......................................................................................69
-r for Function Coverage Reports..................................................................................69
-s or --sampling-spec...........................................................................................................69
-v or --version......................................................................................................................71
-w........................................................................................................................................72
--advice-classes...................................................................................................................72
--advice-cutoff.....................................................................................................................72
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