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Introduction to Performance Tools and APIs

X-Windows Performance Profiler (Xprofiler)

Before you begin

Xprofiler Installation Information

Starting the Xprofiler GUI

Understanding the Xprofiler display

Controlling how the display is updated

Other viewing options

Filtering what you see

Clustering libraries

Locating specific objects in the function call tree

Obtaining performance data for your application

Saving screen images of profiled data

Customizing Xprofiler resources

CPU Utilization Reporting Tool (curt)

Simple Performance Lock Analysis Tool (splat)

Performance Monitor API Programming

Perfstat API Programming

Kernel Tuning

Appendix. Notices

Index