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Re:Evaluation of CPU profiling tools: gperftools, Valgrind a... by Thaxll on Monday November 11, 2019 @10:25AM (#21505542)
No love for VTune?
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Re:Evaluation of CPU profiling tools: gperftools, Valgrind a... by mdani on Monday November 11, 2019 @10:37AM (#21505650)
It was great on physical hosts but could not get it working in EC2 VMs
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Re:Evaluation of CPU profiling tools: gperftools, Valgrind a... by gnufx on Monday November 11, 2019 @04:08PM (#21508925)
It requires access to hardware counters you don't normally have in EC2, and at a privilege level I wouldn't want to enable in a multi-user compute system.
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Re:Evaluation of CPU profiling tools: gperftools, Valgrind a... by Narishma on Monday November 11, 2019 @12:27PM (#21506679)
Does it work on non-Intel CPUs?
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Re:Evaluation of CPU profiling tools: gperftools, Valgrind a... by gnufx on Monday November 11, 2019 @04:14PM (#21508974)
Ho, ho. There are assorted free performance tools that do, though -- at least on POWER and ARM64 for various HPC-focussed ones. I don't know much about VTune, but it's not clear to me what it does that I can't do with other tools on x86_64, and others allow me to measure serial and communication metrics together.
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