HP Caliper 5.7 User Guide (769153-001, March 2014)

Metrics You Can Use for Report Sorting and Cutoffs..................................................................106
Module-Centric Reports.........................................................................................................109
Process Summary.................................................................................................................110
Function Details....................................................................................................................111
Disassembly Listing...............................................................................................................111
Branch Targets in Disassembly Listings................................................................................112
Source Position Correlation....................................................................................................112
Source Line Data.............................................................................................................112
Address Types Shown............................................................................................................112
How Functions Are Named in Reports.....................................................................................113
Unnamed Functions..........................................................................................................113
Unknown Functions..........................................................................................................113
VSE Information Shown in Report Output (HP-UX only) ..................................................113
HyperThreading Information for Dual-Core Itanium 2 and Itanium 9300 Quad-Core Processors Shown
in Report Output...................................................................................................................114
How HP Caliper Saves Data in Databases...............................................................................115
Names and Locations for the Databases.............................................................................115
Changing the Default Name and Location......................................................................115
Creating Reports from Multiple Databases...............................................................................116
Using the caliper report Command to Create a Report from One or More Databases................117
Using the caliper merge Command to Merge Data From Multiple Collection Runs....................117
Using the caliper diff Command to Difference Data Collected in Two Databases......................119
Example of How to Use the caliper diff Command...........................................................121
10 Producing a Sampled Call Graph Profile Analysis.....................................122
How Sampled Call Graph Profile Analysis Works.....................................................................122
Differences Between scgprof and cgprof..................................................................................122
Running the HP Caliper Sampled Call Graph Profile..................................................................123
Sampled Call Graph Text Report Example ...............................................................................123
Sampled Call Graph Profile Report Details...............................................................................132
Flat Profile Part of the Report..............................................................................................132
Call Graph Part of the Report............................................................................................132
Hot Call Paths Part of the Report........................................................................................132
Function Indexes..............................................................................................................132
Diagnostic Messages........................................................................................................133
gprof Fallacy and Possibly Misleading Results...........................................................................133
11 Producing a Sampled Call Stack Profile Analysis.......................................134
Running HP Caliper to Produce a Call Stack Profile...................................................................134
Call Stack Profile Text Report Example for HP-UX.......................................................................134
Call Stack Profile Text Report Example for Linux........................................................................142
Call Stack Profile Report Details..............................................................................................149
Flat Profile Part of the Report..............................................................................................149
Blocking Primitives Summary Part of the Report....................................................................149
Thread Synchronization Primitive's Holder and Waiter Thread Analysis (HP-UX 11.31 only)....149
Hot Call Paths Part of the Report........................................................................................150
Call Graph Part of the Report............................................................................................151
Function Indexes..............................................................................................................151
Avoids gprof Fallacy.............................................................................................................151
Limitations to Using cstack.....................................................................................................151
Pstack like functionality..........................................................................................................151
12 Performing CPU Metrics Analysis (HP-UX only) ................................153
13 HP Caliper Features Specific to HP-UX (HP-UX only) .........................154
Measuring Memory Usage Concurrently with Other Measurements (HP-UX only) ....................154
Examples of the --memory-usage= Option............................................................................155
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