[PerfSuite-users] psprocess weirdness...

[Tirath R. <ti...@in...>]

hi all,
I've encountered something that seems quite weird to me...

I profiled a job with psrun, and it all works fine with most  
counters, however this happens only with PAPI_L2_LDM (as far as I've  
experienced):




--start
psprocess -e /opt/gamess_src/gamess.02.x /usr/scr/gamess.02.x.873.xml
...
File Summary
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
--------
Samples   Self %  Total %  File

    305  100.00%  100.00%  ??

Function Summary
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
--------
Samples   Self %  Total %  Function

    305  100.00%  100.00%  ??

Function:File:Line Summary
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
--------
Samples   Self %  Total %  Function:File:Line

    305  100.00%  100.00%  ??:??:0
--end






BUT, when I pipe it through `less`, i.e.:
--start
psprocess -e /opt/gamess_src/gamess.02.x /usr/scr/gamess.02.x.873.xml  
| less
...
File Summary
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
--------
Samples   Self %  Total %  File

    243   79.67%   79.67%  ?
     62   20.33%  100.00%  ??

Function Summary
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
--------
Samples   Self %  Total %  Function

     78   25.57%   25.57%  sotran_
     62   20.33%   45.90%  ??
     41   13.44%   59.34%  dirfck_
     28    9.18%   68.52%  vclr_
...
Function:File:Line Summary
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
--------
Samples   Self %  Total %  Function:File:Line

     78   25.57%   25.57%  sotran_:?:0
     62   20.33%   45.90%  ??:??:0
     41   13.44%   59.34%  dirfck_:?:0
     28    9.18%   68.52%  vclr_:?:0
     23    7.54%   76.07%  prefin_:?:0
--end

(The missing line summaries are fine because I compiled the  
executable without debugging symbols)

I guess this isn't really a huge problem (so long as the veracity of  
the info is not disputed), but has anyone else experienced this weird  
behaviour??? The last few times I tried redirecting to a text file  
(i.e.: psprocess -e /opt/gamess_src/gamess.02.x /usr/scr/gamess.02.x. 
873.xml > tmp.txt) it has been working fine, but it didn't work  
yesterday, which is how I noticed there was a problem to begin with.


-tirath