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Install Intel VTune performance analyzer for Linux on Moblin system
Install Intel VTune performance analyzer on Moblin system
Author: Yang Wang (Intel)
Type: Tips and Techniques
10/20/2009
Use VTuneAPI in your code to profile without launching VTune(TM) Analyzer
Tips and technical notes for VTune(TM) Performance Analyzer
Author: Peter Wang (Intel)
Type: Tips and Techniques
10/15/2009
Where are my threads? - Part II
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Author: Levent (Intel)
Type: Tips and Techniques
10/14/2009
Where are my threads?
VTune, Threading, Affinity, Scheduling Threads, Sample Over Time
Author: Levent (Intel)
Type: Tips and Techniques
09/30/2009
How am I notified of updates for my registered products?
This article introduces how to receive the product update notification.
Author: Lina Liu (Intel)
Type: Tips and Techniques
08/10/2009
Hot functions can’t be displayed in VTune(TM) Performance Analyzer’s report
This is a common issue/solution to use Intel(R) C++ compiler with VTune(TM) Analyzer on Linux*
Author: Feilong H. (Intel),Peter Wang (Intel)
Type: Tips and Techniques
03/24/2009
Should Intel license manager for FLEXlm be installed on the same OS machine as that the license is limited to?
If customers try to install the Intel license manager for FLEXlm on a different machine with that the license supports, should it be allowed? The article clarifies this question.
Author: Lina Liu (Intel)
Type: Tips and Techniques
03/09/2009
How to apply renewal license to the right current license?
When customers purchase renewal licenses, it is possible to apply the renewal to the wrong license by mistake. This article introduces how to apply the renewal license to the correct original license.
Author: Lina Liu (Intel)
Type: Tips and Techniques
03/03/2009
Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer 9.1 Support for GNU Debuglink
This article describes Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer's support for GNU* debuglink.
Author: RAVI (Intel),Shannon Cepeda (Intel)
Type: Tips and Techniques
01/23/2009
High Clocks Per Instruction Retired when vectorizing the loop.
Sometimes when we vectorize a loop, we get a high Clocks Per Instruction Retired (CPI) value. This happens when there is high bus utilization and the bus gets saturated.
Type: Tips and Techniques
11/18/2008
How do I change my single-user license to a floating license?
This article guides you how to change your license from single-user license to floating license or node-locked.
Author: Lina Liu (Intel)
Type: Tips and Techniques
11/05/2008
How do I upgrade from an evaluation to a full commercial version (single-user or floating)?
This article provides what you should do if you own a new full license of the same product after you have an evaluation copy already.
Author: Lina Liu (Intel)
Type: Tips and Techniques
11/05/2008
Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer for Linux* - How do I Supply Arguments for the Application to Run Under the Analyzer?
Symptom(s): The VTune™ analyzer complains of a "Syntax Error" when you attempt to specify arguments or parameters to the application on the vtl command line. Solution: Use comma separation for ...
Type: Tips and Techniques
09/19/2008
Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer for Linux* - Documentation and command-line help
The documentation for the Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer for Linux* is presented in these formats: Documentation Index Readme File Installation Guide Administrator's Guide Readme File for ...
Type: Tips and Techniques
09/19/2008
Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer for Linux* - Java* Development Kits (JDKs)
The VTune analyzer in the integrated Eclipse platform environment has been tested for operation on the following JDK: BEA* JRockit* 5.0 The VTune analyzer has been tested for profiling under the fol ...
Type: Tips and Techniques
09/19/2008
Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer for Linux* - Temporary and project files for VTune™ Analyzer for Linux* location
There are several places where VTune™ analyzer for Linux* stores its temporary and project files: user files, instrumented binaries for the current user, and symbol cache files for all VTune u ...
Type: Tips and Techniques
09/19/2008
Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer for Linux* - What is VTune™ VDK? Should I update it every time new VDK is released?
The VTune™ Analyzer Driver Kit is a package that is needed to do sampling profiling and build VTune sampling driver on Linux* for a non-supported version of Linux kernel. It consists of two pa ...
Type: Tips and Techniques
09/19/2008
Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer for Linux* - To collect VTune™ analyzer Sampling data within the specified processor range
To focus on specific processors use the processor masking options and select processors to monitor by configuring the sampling collector. In GUI open Activity Configuration » Configure Sampl ...
Type: Tips and Techniques
09/19/2008
Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer for Linux* - Pause/Resume APIs on Intel® 64 systems
When you build an application that uses the VTune analyzer Pause/Resume APIs using a 64-bit compiler on an Intel® 64 system and link it to the VtuneApi library, you may get the following error: ld: ...
Type: Tips and Techniques
09/19/2008
Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer for Linux* - Event Based Sampling reports no samples on a virtual machine on Linux*
Only Time-based Sampling is supported on virtualized Microsoft Windows* environments. If you attempt to use Event Based Sampling, the VTune™ analyzer will crash or report "no samples found" bec ...
Type: Tips and Techniques
09/19/2008
Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer 8.0 for Linux* - To manually remove the VTune™ Analyzer for Linux* from the system
Solution: To completely remove the VTune™ Analyzer 8.0 for Linux* from the system use the following commands: rpm -e --nodeps --noscripts `rpm -qa | egrep 'intel-vdk|intel-vtune' #This command ...
Type: Tips and Techniques
09/19/2008
Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer 8.0 for Linux* - You must have permission to write to the global data directory
Solution: In order for a user (non root) to use VTune: Add the user into group that was chosen during VTune installation. or Change group ownership for special VTune files: #chgrp -R your_group /o ...
Type: Tips and Techniques
09/19/2008
Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer 8.0 for Linux* - Collecting Sampling Data for Linux* Kernel
Solution: The following files should present in the /boot directory: vmlinuz-{$KERNEL_VERSION} System.map-{$KERNEL_VERSION} vmlinux-{$KERNEL_VERSION} where {$KERNEL_VERSION} is the version of runnin ...
Type: Tips and Techniques
09/19/2008
Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer for Windows* - Why can't I unpack VTune™ analyzer 8.0 for Linux* pack-and-go files?
Version 8.0 of the VTune™ Performance Analyzer for Linux* introduces the ability to automatically compress pack-and-go files as they are generated. This greatly reduces the size of the resulti ...
Type: Tips and Techniques
09/19/2008
Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer 8.0 for Windows* - Location of Temporary and Project Files for VTune™ for Linux*
Solution: There are several places where VTune™ stores its temporary and project files: user files, instrumented binaries for the current user, and symbol cache files for all VTune users. The ...
Type: Tips and Techniques
09/19/2008