System information

96 System Analysis and Tuning Guide
Model Processor
9000/9100 (Montecito, Montvale)
and Generic
AMD X86 Opteron (K8, fam 10h)
Intel X86 Intel P6 (Pentium II, Pentium Pro,
Pentium III, Pentium M); Yonah
(Core Duo, Core Solo); Netburst
(Pentium 4, Xeon); Core (Merom,
Penryn, Dunnington) Core 2 and
Quad; Atom; Nehalem; architectural
perfmon v1, v2, v3
Install the following packages depending on your architecture:
Table7.2: Needed Packages
Architecture Packages
ia64 pfmon
7.3 Using Perfmon
In order to use Perfmon, use the command line tool pfmon to get all your informa-
tion.
NOTE: Mutual Exclusion of Perfmon and OProfile Sessions
On x86 architectures it is not possible to start a Perfmon session and a OPro-
file session. Only one can be run at the same time.
7.3.1 Getting Event Information
To get a list of supported events, use the option -l from pfmon to list them. Keep in
mind, this list depends on the host PMU:
pfmon -l