Application Profiling

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Upstream documentation

RedHat has a Profiling section in their Developer Guide:

• https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Developer_Guide/profiling.html

An Application Profiling section in their Performance Tuning Guide:

• https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Performance_Tuning_Guide/s-analyzeperf-profiling.html

A Performance Monitoring Tools section in their Developer Toolset User Guide:

• https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Developer_Toolset/1/html/User_Guide/debugging.html

A SystemTap Beginners guide:

• https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/index.html

And a SystemTap Tapset Reference Guide:

• https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/SystemTap_Tapset_Reference/

CMS (igprof)

CMS has their own profiler, with information available at http://igprof.org/

To use, simply:

• source /nfs/cms/sw/install/slc6_amd64_gcc481/external/igprof/5.9.10/etc/profile.d/init.sh

gprof