HP XC System 3.x Software - Manual (Page 114)

Figure A-1 HPCPI Database
$HPCPIDB
200802141532
node 1 node 2 node 3
200802141712 200802141744
. . .
. . .
. . . . . .
App12.ebadcb63fb63e830_myLabel_5 sum.0479a583cd891014_3
The HPCPIDB environment variable is set to /tmp/hpcpidb. One of the epochs started on
February 14, 2008 at 17:12 GMT on the system node2 contains the following profile file with
data for sum:
/tmp/hpcpidb/200802141712/node2/sum.0479a583cd891014_3
The following profile file contains data for the application App12 and is associated with the label
myLabel
:
/tmp/hpcpidb/200802141712/node2/App12.ebadcb63fb63e830_myLabel_5
hpcpicat Output
The hpcpicat utility displays the contents of a performance data file with minimal formatting.
This utility is a debugging tool for advanced users and is not intended for general performance
profiling. A sample output follows:
name myApp 1
image 2095041907123563e830 2
path /var/users/user1/bin/myApp 3
epoch 200801010338 4
platform node6 5
text_start 0x4000000000000000 6
text_size 0x000000000e40 7
8 9 10 11 12 13
event 27374040000 ( 456234) CPU_CYCLES:60000:1/1
event 25317240000 ( 421954) NOPS_RETIRED:60000:1/1
event 49626660000 ( 827111) IA64_INST_RETIRED:60000:1/1
14 15 16 17 18
0x4000000000000500 330120000 2563080000 480000
0x4000000000000501 293220000 240000 420000
0x4000000000000510 277740000 0 780000
:
:
13 The active fraction for the
event, in the form 1/n, 7 The size of the executable
portion of the image, in
bytes. 1 The image name.
2 The checksum for the
image. This enables
which is the fraction of
time the event was active
8 The next three lines
contain a table with event HPCPI to distinguish
between image files with
in the PMU. If this value is
less than 1/1, the number
information. Each line
contains information for
one event. the same name in
multiple directories. It
also enables HPCPI to
of events sampled was
greater than the number of
performance counters and
9 The event count for the
event, as calculated by distinguish between
multiple versions of an
image file.
the event was not in all
duty groups.
HPCPI. This is the
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