pfmon -- performance monitoring tool for Linux/ia6

pfmon -- performance monitoring tool for Linux/ia64.

pfmon is based on Itanium Monitoring Unit (PMU).

"pfmon" supports the following list of options on any host system:

 

-h, --help display the list of supported options

 

-V, --version display pfmon version information

 

-l[regex] show list of supported events by host PMU

 

-i get information about a particular event

 

-u, -3, --user-level       monitor at the user level for all events

 

-k, -0, --kernel-level      monitor at the kernel level for all events

 

-eev1,ev2,...     select events to monitor

 

-I, --info         show pfmon information and detected host CPU

 

--outfile=filename   save counts in a file

 

--system-wide create a system wide monitoring session

 

-show-time show real, user, system time for the executed command

 

--symbol-file=filename use the ELF archive filename to look for symbols --sysmap-file=filename use the System.map filename for kernel symbols

 --session-timeout=xxx    timeout of session

There is other options which are not listed here. Please do "pfmon -h" for detailed info if you like.