About This Book

Introduction to Performance Tools and APIs

X-Windows Performance Profiler (Xprofiler)

CPU Utilization Reporting Tool (curt)

Simple Performance Lock Analysis Tool (splat)

Performance Monitor API Programming

Performance Monitor Accuracy

Performance Monitor Context and State

Thread Accumulation and Thread Group Accumulation

Security Considerations

Common Rules

The pm_init API Initialization Routine

Eight Basic API Calls

Thread Counting-Group Information

Examples

Perfstat API Programming

Kernel Tuning

Appendix. Notices

Index