HP UX Caliper Software manual Pmutrace Scgprof, Caliper diff reportoptions database2 database1

Database:	/home/sujoys/db3
Measurement scope: per-process
Sampling Specification
Sampling event:		CPU_CYCLES
Sampling period:		500000 events
Sampling period variation:		25000 (5.00% of sampling period)
Sampling counter privilege:		user (user-space sampling)
Data granularity:		16 bytes
Data sampled:		IP

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If the data collected in two or more of the databases is similar data (for example, an fprof collection), then the report has this data summed together. If the data collected is different (for example, an fprof collection and a dcache collection), then the report will contain both sets of data.

For example, the Function Summary for a merged fprof and dcache report will have separate columns to specify all of the following:

	Sampled	Dcache
IP	Dcache	Latency
Samples	Misses	Cycles

If you do not specify a database, HP Caliper uses the database created from your latest run. (Of course, there is no merging of data, but you do not get an error.)

By default, all processes with the same basename will have their data merged together, regardless of where they might reside in the process hierarchy of the input databases. To change this, use the --group-by module option, which will group data by load module with the same basename.

HP Caliper supports merge reports for all measurements except the ones below. For these measurements, the data is not merged across collection runs. Instead, the reports are appended one after another:

•cgprof (HP-UX only)

•cpu (HP-UX only)

•pmu_trace

•scgprof

You cannot merge databases to a single database. You can only merge databases to a report.

Using the caliper diff Command to Difference Data Collected in Two Databases

Use caliper diff to create a report that differences the data collected in two databases. In the report, the contributing collection runs are appended one after another.

The syntax for this command is:

caliper diff [report_options] database2 database1

HP Caliper will produce a report that shows the difference in data collected between matching processes in the two databases, but only for processes with the same measurement type. Any process that does not match a process in the other database will be ignored. See Example 3.

Creating Reports from Multiple Databases 117