SpeedShop Basic Tools
- ssrun
- basic performance data generation tool
- outputs binary file with the performance experiment results per program or execution thread
- prof
- human readable interpretation of the ssrun binary files
- sscord/ssorder and sswsextr
- used to extract the working set information from a program to re-order the program subroutines to pack frequently executed instructions on same memory pages (reduces TLB miss for instr.)
- ssusage: ssusage program prog-args
- similar to time, but gives resident size and I/O characteristics
- squeeze and thrash
- change amount of memory available to the user program
- ssdump
- dump the binary performance data files in ASCII format
- fbdump
- writes compiler feedback files from prof
- ssaggregate
- combines multiple SpeedShop binary performance data files into one