Vineeth Mekkat wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to measure bus utilization of some benchmarks on Itanium > Montecito machine. I followed the procedure in > http://www.ice.gelato.org/oct06/pres_pdf/gelato_ICE06oct_perfmon2_eranian_hp.pdf > > and measured the bus utilization. Now, I am not sure at what percentage > of value is the bus saturated? Is it 100%?
What sort of system are you measuring? A single-bus system, or a "cell-based" system? > Say, if my bus utilization is 75%, can I say the bus is saturated? > > I will be grateful if someone can shed some light on this. I'm not sure how much light I will shed, but when it comes to memory busses, I've never been comfortable much past 80%. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ perfmon2-devel mailing list perfmon2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perfmon2-devel