[BSD-INDIA] Performance Monitoring of x86 on FreeBSD systems - ACM Tech Talk April 2009 edition

[Vinayak Hegde]

*ACM Bangalore chapter *(http://acmbangalore.org) invites you to the April
Edition of the tech talk.*
*

*ACM Tech Talk
*

*PmcTools <http://wiki.freebsd.org/PmcTools/>* in
FreeBSD<http://www.freebsd.org/>is an innovative measurement platform
that uses in-CPU hardware event
counters for characterizing system behaviour. PmcTools' low-overheads,
useful features and its ability to collect data under production loads have
helped it become an integral part of the performance analyst's toolkit in
FreeBSD.

This talk introduces PmcTools. We start with a high-level overview of the
goals of the project, and go on to cover the architecture of the PmcTools
platform, its programming API and a few interesting aspects of its
implementation. The changes to the base FreeBSD kernel needed for PmcTools
are touched upon. The talk concludes with a discussion on the possible
future directions of the project.

*About the Speaker*

Joseph Koshy has been a user of FreeBSD <http://www.freebsd.org/> since 1994
and a volunteer developer of this operating system since 1998.

He is the author of FreeBSD's "PmcTools <http://wiki.freebsd.org/PmcTools>"
performance analysis toolset.

Joseph is mentor to two FreeBSD committers and lives in Chittoor district,
Andhra Pradesh, India.

*Date: 18th April 2009 - 10.00am-12.00noon
Venue: Honeywell, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore.*
There is no registration fee. Please register at
http://acmbangalore.org/index.php?option=com_attend_events&task=view&id=3&Itemid=0

-- Vinayak
--
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