What system performance tools are available for Linux/ia64?
• Perfmon & libpfm (http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/perfmon/) – Kernel support and library for applications to get access to the Itanium processor’s hardware Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU). • pfmon (http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/perfmon/) – A non-intrusive monitoring program that provides access to all of the Itanium and Itanium 2 PMU features. • PAPI (http://icl.cs.utk.edu/projects/papi/) – A standard API for accessing hardware performance counters. • gprof (http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/manual/gprof-2.9.1/gprof.html) – Sampling-based flat profile reporting percent of time spent in a procedure typically enabled through compiler options. • VTune (http://www.intel.com/software/products/vtune/) – Commercial tool for system-wide, event-based sampling. • Prospect (http://prospect.sourceforge.net/) – A flat, sampling-based instruction-pointer profiler. • top – Well-known performance-monitoring that provides periodic snapshots of process activity. • /proc – Not a really