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Running Measurements and Creating Reports
Several performance measurement tasks are the same whether you are
making activity or duration measurements.
This section describes how to:
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Run performance measurements.
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End performance measurements.
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Create a performance measurement report.
To run performance measurements
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Use the performance_measurement_run command.
The
performance_measurement_run
command processes analyzer trace
data. When you end the performance measurement, this processed data is
dumped to the binary "perf.out" file in the current directory. The perf32
report generator utility is used to read the binary information in the "perf.out"
file.
If the performance_measurement_run command is entered without a
count, the current trace data is processed. If a count is specified, the current
trace command is executed consecutively the number of times specified.
The data that results from each trace command is processed and combined
with the existing processed data. The STATUS line will say "Processing trace
<NO.>" during the run so you will know how your measurement is
progressing. The only way to stop this series of traces is by using <CTRL>c
(sig INT).
The more traces you include in your sample, the more accurate will be your
results. At least four consecutive traces are required to obtain statistical
interpretation of activity measurement results.
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