Application Profiling/Performance Optimization on HPUX

[Vishwanath RN]

Hi,

I got an inquiry from a customer on performance tuning of a C++ application on HP-UX. Could anyone here point to some of the profiling tools (for monitoring performance at class, method levels) and identify performance bottlenecks within the code?

Regards,
Vishwa

[Dennis Handly]

If this is Integrity, there is caliper. At the system level, there is glance.

[rick jones]

And to a lesser degree, tusc might be considered a tool for tuning by showing if there are ecessive or redundant system calls being made.

[dirk dierickx]

the best profiler and debugging tool for c/c++ is valgrind.

http://valgrind.org/info/tools.html#cachegrind

don't use it on production though, because it realy slows down your application when profiling, but you do get a lot of info from it. ideal during the development phase!

[rick jones]

Dirk - valgrind et al are quite nice, I've used them from time to time with netperf. However, since the context is HP-UX, and there is (to my knowledge) no HP-UX port (PA-RISC or Itanium) of valgrind, it won't help Vishwanath all that much :)

[dirk dierickx]

hmm, indeed, i never use c on HPUX so i was not aware this excellent tool isn't ported.

still, it depends on how portable his C code is, could be developed on linux using valgrind and then compiled on hpux.

who knows...