Re: Performance Counters

2015-02-22 Thread Philip Guenther
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 6:11 AM, Sai Prajeeth wrote: > Does pctr count events for all CPUs or just 1 CPU? I cant seem to find any > good documentation for pctr other than its man page. I tried it and the > values it gives are differing too much. The pctr driver is currently not MP aware, so it on

Re: Performance Counters

2015-02-19 Thread Sai Prajeeth
0 schreef Sai Prajeeth < > cspraje...@gmail.com>: > >> Is there any command that will let me access the processor's performance >> counters?? I am looking for something like Linux's perf / FreeBSDs pmcstat >> that will help me get the IPC (Instructions per cy

Re: Performance Counters

2015-02-19 Thread Boudewijn Dijkstra
Op Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:15:26 +0100 schreef Sai Prajeeth : Is there any command that will let me access the processor's performance counters?? I am looking for something like Linux's perf / FreeBSDs pmcstat that will help me get the IPC (Instructions per cycle) of the system.

Performance Counters

2015-02-18 Thread Sai Prajeeth
Hi, Is there any command that will let me access the processor's performance counters?? I am looking for something like Linux's perf / FreeBSDs pmcstat that will help me get the IPC (Instructions per cycle) of the system. Thanks

Re: cpu performance counters (cache hit/miss etc)

2011-04-27 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:28 PM, David Steiner wrote: > thank you philip guenther. just what i was looking for. are there more > examples how to use pctr? not so easy to interpret what's going on. I don't know of anything relevant that isn't already referenced from the manpage. Good luck! Phi

Re: cpu performance counters (cache hit/miss etc)

2011-04-27 Thread David Steiner
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:02:09 -0400 Luis Useche wrote: > > Did you try searching for the subject of your message? > > > > $ apropos 'cpu performance counters' > > pctr (1) - display CPU performance counters > > pctr (4/AMD64) - driver for CPU performance

Re: cpu performance counters (cache hit/miss etc)

2011-04-27 Thread Luis Useche
he special >> performance registers to find out. but time is limited. i've searched >> manpages and on the web without any "cache hits" so to speak. > > Did you try searching for the subject of your message? > > $ apropos 'cpu performance counters' &

Re: cpu performance counters (cache hit/miss etc)

2011-04-26 Thread Philip Guenther
> best OS out there? > > sure i could read the intel manuals on accessing the special > performance registers to find out. but time is limited. i've searched > manpages and on the web without any "cache hits" so to speak. Did you try searching for the subject of your messa

cpu performance counters (cache hit/miss etc)

2011-04-26 Thread David Steiner
hi. is there a convenient way to display CPU cache statistics in openbsd? like the amount of L1/L2 hits/misses? there's OProfile for linux, Vtune for Linux/Windows, cachekit for Solaris, but what's available for the best OS out there? sure i could read the intel manuals on accessing the special p