Re: [PerfSuite-users] Problem in using perfmon configuration files on cobalt

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

Chunhua,

> I was trying to use some perfmon configuration files (e.g. pfm_ipc.xml)
> with the libpshwpc library on cobalt, using the environment variable
> PS_HWPC_CONFIG.  But no result xml files were generated. The same
> procedure works for regular PAPI configuration files (class=PAPI) though.
>
> I tested it using "psrun -c pfm_ipc.xml a.out" and got the following message
> "libpsrun fatal error: a required software component not installed"
>
> How can I fix it?

You may have figured this out already, but in case not: "Cobalt" is an SGI 
Altix operated at NCSA that runs SGI ProPack 4, which uses a 2.6-based 
Linux kernel.  The current release of PerfSuite, while supporting 2.6 
kernels, does not support direct use of the Perfmon driver and user 
library, which is necessary for XML configuration files of class 
"perfmon".

There is a workaround that has been mentioned before, though.  For 
reference, the thread at the SF mailing lists is:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30932390&forum_id=39162

Rick