Re: any tool for system performance?
Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++multipass.engr.sgi.com)
Fri, 6 Feb 1998 20:05:24 -0800
On Feb 6, 3:34pm, Liu Xiaoyan wrote:
> Subject: any tool for system performance?
> (Sorry, I mis-sent an unfinished email just now!)
>
> Hi, Dave and Performers,
>
> We found our CAVE applications extremely slow these days for
> unknown reasons. The frame rate of a VRML model of 6 megabytes
> dispalyed in Performer drops to 2 frames per second. The machine
> is an SGI Onyx2 with 2 IRs, each having 4GE, 2RM with 128M texture
> memory.
>
> Are there any tools for graphics performance analysis and tuning?
> The "top and gr_osview" doesn't help too much in this aspect.
> Though Performer itself gives this kind of infomation, we suspect
> something not fully configured in our machine.
>
> One more thing, frequently we run Performer programs from a PC and
> kill the process later. Are shared momery automatically freed in
> this case? Maybe there are too much rubbish left in the memory because
> of this ugly exit?
Investigatre processor lockdown using mpadmin -s, also check for other
processes running using top or ps and watch out for interprocess communication
remnants using ipcs.
Cheers,Angus.
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