HP UX Caliper Software manual About This Document

About This Document

This document describes how to use HP Caliper to measure the performance of native applications running on HP-UX and Linux Integrity servers.

NOTE: For the latest version of this document, go to the HP Caliper Web site at the following URL and click on Documentation in the Product Information box:

http://hp.com/go/caliper

This document is sometimes updated after a release. The document publication date appears on the title page.

Intended Audience

This document is written for software developers who want to improve the performance of their application programs. It assumes that you are familiar with compilers and with performance analysis concepts. It is not necessary for you to have used a performance analysis tool before to use HP Caliper.

New and Changed Information in This Edition

New Information

The HP Caliper 5.3 release has the following improvements:

•A new option --sw-process-list, is added. This option is used in the system-wide mode (-woption) to specify a list processes to analyze. This option is used to reduce the overhead of Caliper in the system-wide mode.

•HP Caliper is enhanced to read debug information from +objdebug compiled object files and debug side files. HP Caliper previously read debug information only from executable binaries and load modules. A new option --debug-file-pathis added to specify a list of directories to search for the +objdebug object files.

Deprecated Options

None

Deleted Information

None.

Document Organization

For information to help you get started, read these chapters:

•“HP Caliper at a Glance” (p. 16) provides an introduction to HP Caliper.

•“Getting Started with the HP Caliper Command-Line Interface” (p. 20) helps you get started using the HP Caliper command-line interface.

•“Getting Started with the HP Caliper GUI” (p. 31) introduces you to the HP Caliper graphical user interface (GUI).

For more advanced information, read these chapters:

•“HP Caliper Measurement Configuration Files” (p. 42) describes the measurement configuration files provided with HP Caliper.

•“HP Caliper Options” (p. 47) describes the HP Caliper options in alphabetical order.

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