Re: [PerfSuite-users] Anybody managed to get latest papi work? and is there a CVS repository for perfsuite

[Rick K. <rk...@nc...>]

Stelios,

Sorry to hear you're having difficulties with getting things going
on your system.  The "PAPI version mismatch" comes from a call
to initialize PAPI within the "libpshwpc" library in PerfSuite.
It is meant to detect a conflict between PAPI versions 2 and 3
but that message will also come out if PAPI/perfctr fail to
initialize.

I'm not sure what specific version of perfctr and PAPI you are
using, I can tell you that we run PAPI 3 with perfctr 2.6.5 on
our Xeon systems and also that I've been working with perfctr 2.6.8
on a different (PIII) machine.  We have not tried with any of
the perfctr 2.7 things that have been released lately.  Also,
we use both the PAPI beta 3 and a CVS version of PAPI from 
June.

You mention that pspapi being loaded into Tcl is the symptom: does
that mean that psrun with hardware counting is working (that is,
do you get XML documents with counts)?  Another possibility may
be an unintended libpapi.so being loaded by the Tcl extension
that psprocess uses - but that seems pretty remote.

As it happens, I have access to OSC systems thanks to the folks
there and so possibly could help you out directly, but it would
be a few weeks as I am away for a while (can take this off-list).

Re: CVS - no, there is no CVS repository available.  The 0.6.1b5
version of PerfSuite is quite recent and hopefully the last
version before a final 0.6.1 targeted for the fall.  The reason
why no CVS is mainly to avoid having people update frequently,
which can be pretty time-consuming.  So the effort is to try to make
reasonably well-tested releases available on a less-frequent
basis.

Rick

p.s. Perfctr's author is very good/prompt at providing support
for patching a number of different kernel versions so it's possible
that if the patch procedure didn't work previously, that there
may be a more recent version that would.

The perfctr mailing list has announcements that are archived at 
http://www.sf.net/projects/perfctr/

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Stelios Kyriacou wrote:

> 
> Hi 
> 
> I am a new user to this group. We are trying to get latest perfsuite with 
> the latest papi. I know that this is still alpha but was wondering if 
> anybody has got it to work and what would be requierd. Right now the 
> error i get is that there is a "PAPI version mismatch" error that does not 
> allow pspapi to be loaded in tcl.
> 
> Also: is there a CVS available for perfsuite? I would like to try the 
> latest version possible just in case there have been any improvements to 
> the PAPI interface.
> 
> The reason we would like to stick with the latest papi is that it seems to 
> to work with the latest version of perfctr which in turn seems to work 
> with our specific kernel (earlier version of perfctr do not seem to patch 
> our kernel correctly).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Stelios Kyriacou
> Systems Admin
> Ohio Supercomputing Center
> 
> 
> 
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