PAPI in the ports

[Harald Servat]

Hello,

2007/6/14, Thomas Vogt <freebsdlists at bsdunix.ch>:
>
> Hi
>
> Thats sounds nice. You wrote "The goal of the PmcTools project is to
> provide FreeBSD's developers and system administrators with
> non-intrusive, low-overhead and innovative ways of measuring and
> analysing system performance" your website. Have you ever measured the
> performance impact of such tools?


No, I didn't, I just did the port.

But maybe Joseph Koshy (who is the author of PMCTools) has measurements of
the PMC library on different machines/environments. See
http://wiki.freebsd.org/PmcTools or contact him directly.

The port itself is based directly on the PMCtools (i.e. it's almost a
wrapper to convert PAPI calls into PMC calls), so I don't think that PAPI
adds too much overhead to this basic library.

I'm interested to run such tool on production machines in the future but
> only if the performance impact isn't that high.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
> Harald Servat wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >  I'm glad to announce you that PAPI-3.5.0 has reached the FreeBSD ports
> > tree and now it's generally available for all FreeBSD users.
> >
> >  Port information is available at
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=papi&stype=all&sektion=devel
> >
> >  See http://code.google.com/p/papi-for-freebsd/wiki/HowToInstall for
> > installation instructions.
> >
> >  There are some issues with P4 processors that need to be fixed on
> > PAPI_write / PAPI_reset routines, but the package have the minimal (and
> > most
> > important functionality) working fine for the rest of the substrates.
> >
> > Regards,
>


Regards,
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