developerWorks: Five Easy-to-Use Performance Tools for Linux on PowerPC

"The Performance Inspector package contains a suite of performance tools for Linux. The tools can be used to analyze performance of your C/C++ and Java applications, as well as performance of your system as a whole. The five easy-to-use tools covered in this article are:

• "Timer Profiler (Tprof)
• "CPU utilization (AI)
• "Per thread time (PTT)
• "Java lock monitor (JLM)
• "Java heap dump (heap dump)

"Performance Inspector consists of Tprof, AI, PTT, JLM, post, jprof, a2n, swtrace, and heap dump..."

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