>From my understanding tracing for the kernel stack on linux is pretty limited, >and on IA64 it is even more limited. Sorry to say, I know tools for sparc, >power5/6 and pa-risc, but no good kernel time profilers for IA64. :(
http://lttng.org/content/download You might have some luck getting a hold of the maintains of LTTng, I heard rumors a few years ago of them having a IA64 tool that might help. I have no idea of its state. Good luck! -----Original Message----- From: Peter Chubb [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 1:34 PM To: Dalziel, Josh Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: PMU-tools for Itanim in Debian Unstable >>>>> "Josh" == Josh Dalziel <Dalziel> writes: Josh> Peter, I guess it would help with what type of information you Josh> are looking for. Are you looking for basic cpu/mem/disk Josh> information? Personally I have collection of sar scripts, and Josh> take the output and make pretty rrdtool graphs with it. I'm looking for cache miss profiles, pipeline stalls, etc., in a new app I'm porting to Itanium. I think I said, tools for the PMU --- i.e., perfcounter/perfmon in the kernel, and q-tools/pfmon/oprofile/papi/caliper in userspace. Peter C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e61d41881ee1d747bc4325624f6a3567269a3d7...@nxprdvsmbx18.gsm1900.org

