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128 lines
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Installing and Using
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Profile.exe
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Windows NT Sampling Profiler
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Windows NT v4.0
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Overview:
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The Windows NT Sampling Profiler is an easy to use tool that records
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the how often each function of an application is called during the
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course of that application.
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Installation:
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Required Files:
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PROFILE.EXE Windows NT Sampling Profiler
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Installed from the SDK
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PSAPI.DLL Process Support API Library
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Installed from the SDK
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Before trying to use the Sampling Profile make sure the required
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files listed above are in the path.
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Use:
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Required Environment Variables:
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The Sampling profiler must have access to the image's symbols
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in order to produce the most meaningful output. The sybmols
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are searched in the path described by the
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_NT_SYMBOL_PATH
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environment variable. Be sure to set this variable to the
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correct path before attempting the profile.
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Command Line Arguments:
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Usage: profile [/a] [/innn] [/k] name-of-image [parameters]...
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/a All hits
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/bnnn Set profile bucket size to 2 to the nnn bytes
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/ffilename Output to filename
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/innn Set profile interval to nnn (in 100ns units)
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/k profile system modules
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/s[profilesource] Use profilesource instead of clock interrupt
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/S[profilesource] Use profilesource as secondary profile source
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/a
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will display ALL hits or addresses that were sampled during
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the test run. Normally the hits are summarized by function.
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/bnnn
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Sets the profile bucket size (in bytes) to use. The default
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is 4 bytes. This determines the sample address granularity.
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/ffilename
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set the output file that is produced when the sampled program
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terminates. The defalt for this is "profile.out"
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/innn
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Sets the sample interval in 100 nS units. The default value
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is 488.2 microseconds (or /i4882)
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/k
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allows processing of system functions that are called by
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the process being profiled. Normally on the the user mode
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functions of the process are profiled.
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/sprofilesource
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changes the profile sample interrupt from the clock interrupt
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to another source. This option is not supported on all
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platforms, however.
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ALPHA Options:
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align
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totalissues
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pipelinedry
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loadinstructions
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pipelinefrozen
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branchinstructions
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totalnonissues
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dcachemisses
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icachemisses
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branchmispredicts
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storeinstructions
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MIPS options:
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align
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/Sprofilesource
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same options as above only this selects the secondary profile
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interrupt source
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Sample Command Lines:
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profile myprog.exe
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profiles the program "myprog.exe" using the default
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settings and monitoring only the user mode functions.
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The output is written to the default filename of
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"profile.out" in the default directory.
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profile /k /fMyProg.dat myprog.exe
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profiles the program "myprog.exe" using the default
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settings and monitoring both the user mode and the
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kernel mode functions executed by this process
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The output is written to the user specified filename
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of "MyProg.dat" in the default directory.
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While the program being profiled runs, the instruction pointer is being
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sampled periodicaly and profile records the value of the instruction
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pointer each time the sample occurs inside the profiled process. When the
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program terminates the recorded address values are looked up in the symbol
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files to determine the function being run at the time. The tabulation
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of the results is then output to the specified, or default, filename.
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The output consists of 3 comma separated fields. The first field is the
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number of times a sample occured in the function. The second field is the
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name of the module containing that function and the third field is the
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name of the function within the module followed by it's virtual
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address. In a verbose listing each of these function entries is followed
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by a listing of the actual addresses that were sampled.
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