Regarding Oprofile for monitoring sockets API sunctions

[Khan S. <Sub...@vt...>]

Dear all,

I just started to use Oprofile since I have to do run time profiling of
BSD socket API functions.

My goal is to draw the cumulative impact .i.e., cache hits, misses and
load
of these API functions at run time in context of the process they reside
in. 
I mean only that load which is caused by those calls to API functions
made 
from within the particular target process.

Then,

A separate graph for the whole of process with the same mentioned
performance 
concerns.

Then,

of all the processes currently scheduled by kernel excluding the one
under test.  

Is this sampling tool suitable for runtime profiling .i.e., as the
process is being run these
graphs are being plotted?

Moreover any good manual or tutorial or book for Oprofile?


Best Regards
Subayal Aftab Khan