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+.\" Copyright (c) 1984 M. K. McKusick
+.\" Copyright (c) 1984 The Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\"
+.\" @(#)0.t 1.2 (Berkeley) 11/8/90
+.\"
+.EQ
+delim $$
+.EN
+.if n .ND
+.TL
+Using gprof to Tune the 4.2BSD Kernel
+.AU
+Marshall Kirk McKusick
+.AI
+Computer Systems Research Group
+Computer Science Division
+Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
+University of California, Berkeley
+Berkeley, California 94720
+.AB
+This paper describes how the \fIgprof\fP profiler
+accounts for the running time of called routines
+in the running time of the routines that call them.
+It then explains how to configure a profiling kernel on
+the 4.2 Berkeley Software Distribution of
+.UX
+for the VAX\(dd
+.FS
+\(dd VAX is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation.
+.FE
+and discusses tradeoffs in techniques for collecting
+profile data.
+\fIGprof\fP identifies problems
+that severely affects the overall performance of the kernel.
+Once a potential problem areas is identified
+benchmark programs are devised to highlight the bottleneck.
+These benchmarks verify that the problem exist and provide
+a metric against which to validate proposed solutions.
+Two caches are added to the kernel to alleviate the bottleneck
+and \fIgprof\fP is used to validates their effectiveness.
+.AE
+.LP
+.de PT
+.lt \\n(LLu
+.pc %
+.nr PN \\n%
+.tl '\\*(LH'\\*(CH'\\*(RH'
+.lt \\n(.lu
+..
+.af PN i
+.ds LH 4.2BSD Performance
+.ds RH Contents
+.bp 1
+.if t .ds CF May 21, 1984
+.if t .ds LF
+.if t .ds RF McKusick
+.ce
+.B "TABLE OF CONTENTS"
+.LP
+.sp 1
+.nf
+.B "1. Introduction"
+.LP
+.sp .5v
+.nf
+.B "2. The \fIgprof\fP Profiler"
+\0.1. Data Presentation"
+\0.1.1. The Flat Profile
+\0.1.2. The Call Graph Profile
+\0.2 Profiling the Kernel
+.LP
+.sp .5v
+.nf
+.B "3. Using \fIgprof\fP to Improve Performance
+\0.1. Using the Profiler
+\0.2. An Example of Tuning
+.LP
+.sp .5v
+.nf
+.B "4. Conclusions"
+.LP
+.sp .5v
+.nf
+.B Acknowledgements
+.LP
+.sp .5v
+.nf
+.B References
+.af PN 1
+.bp 1
+.de _d
+.if t .ta .6i 2.1i 2.6i
+.\" 2.94 went to 2.6, 3.64 to 3.30
+.if n .ta .84i 2.6i 3.30i
+..
+.de _f
+.if t .ta .5i 1.25i 2.5i
+.\" 3.5i went to 3.8i
+.if n .ta .7i 1.75i 3.8i
+..
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