Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!princeton!udel!rochester!kodak!scotty!jwr From: jwr@scotty.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Software performance Message-ID: <132@scotty.UUCP> Date: 8 Jun 88 17:35:36 GMT Reply-To: jwr@scotty.UUCP (Don Smith) Distribution: na Organization: Systems Integration, Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, NY Lines: 11 References: We are interested in help and/or recommendations pertaining to software performance monitoring tools. Our knowledge and experience in this arena is limited. One of our desired goals is to have the capability of determining the overhead (processing time) associated with the various modules of code to identify what processes are consuming the greatest amount of execution time. Our initial attempt used the system time function and we have found it to be insufficient. It may partly be due to not totally understanding the terminology associated with the time function. We are presently using SUN 3 machines running SUN UNIX 4.2 release 3.5. Any help or advice in this area would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!