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Recording, Replaying, and Plotting xperf and xcxperf Data

You can save the data from the xperf or xcxperf utility in a file. The utilities update data for
each monitored node every second. You can use this data file either to replay the data or to plot
graphs of node performance statistics.

The procedures and options (-output, -plot) for recording, replaying, and plotting data are
the same as the procedures used with xclus and xcxclus (

“Recording, Replaying, and Plotting

xclus

and xcxclus Data” (page 89)

). The only difference is that the names of the files xperf

or xcxperf create have xperf in the suffix instead of xclus. The file names created are as
follows:

data_file_prefix.xperf

Data file for xperf or xcxperf.

plot_file_prefix.xperf.plotdata

Data file for gnuplot.

plot_file_prefix.xperf.gnuplot

Script file for gnuplot.

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