HP PAK Performance Analysis Tools User's Guide

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Overview of HP PAK Tools

Introduction to HP PAK

HP PAK consists of three tools that help you analyze the performance of

your applications:

• Puma monitors the program counter, the call/return stack, and other

performance statistics of executing programs. It saves the results in a

data ﬁle. You can then view the data ﬁle in a variety of graphical

formats.

• TTV (thread trace visualizer) reads, synthesizes, and analyzes the

trace ﬁles produced by the instrumented thread library

(libpthread_tr.sl or libpthread_tr.a), and presents the

resulting information in graphical form.

• XPS (X Window System-based view of process statistics) displays the

relative use of resources by processes at the system level.

NOTE Before invoking HP PAK tools, make sure that /opt/langtools/bin is

in your search PATH. To access the manual pages, you must have the

/opt/langtools/share/man directory in your MANPATH.