VTune analyzer 2.0 beta test archives

[jeffrey-gallagher]

This readonly thread is an archive of the postings that were posted during the beta test program for this software. The product is now currently available for sale or evaluation at:

http://www.intel.com/software/products/vtune/vlin

cheers

jdg

[jeffrey-gallagher]

Jay I'm concerned you couldn't open a case. Can you please try again, and note that alphabetically, the product is not under "V" for VTune, but "B" for Beta.

What do you think?

cheers

jdg

[jayaprakashp]

Yeah. I did look for beta btw. I tried opening the case for VTUNE beta, but it fails saying "Internal error". May be I'm not officially allowed to post an issue for beta.

Thanks
JP

[isn-removed924]

So there is a bit of hope still...

I'm usingVTServer from VTune Analyzer7.1 Beta.

I guess you're implying Thread View should work with standalone Analyzer 2.0 for Linux. Is that right?

Thanks

[jeffrey-gallagher]

Try opening a report using either another computer, or a different browser on your current computer, or both.

We're not getting reports that there's a problem on our end.

If you registered the beta software, you should be able to open your own premier case.

If you can try one or both of my above suggestions, and you have the same problem, I'll want your email account to check out what's failing for you on this end. You can send your email account to me at vtune.sales@intel.com, subject FOR JDG

cheers

jdg

[jeffrey-gallagher]

Actually, not that I mind being accused of optimism (inadvertent or otherwise) I just wanted to get my bearings before proceeding.

:)

Stay tuned. I'll report back soonest.

jdg

[jeffrey-gallagher]

The title says it all.

Everybody here in the forum wants to wish everybody out there a safe, healthy, and prosperous 2004!

(Also, keep sending in those great questions, answers, and comments!)

cheers,

jdg

(for the whole Intel forum team)

[jeffrey-gallagher]

Hey team,

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We'd love to shake your hand, chat about these forums and how you're enjoying using them. Now, here's the formal announcement!

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[goanuj]

Has anyone been successful at getting this to work on Gentoo? What kernel level patches are needed for 2.6.X?

[jeffrey-gallagher]

Hello Henric,

You've hit the nail on the head already: the tarball you downloadedvt_cli_2.0.348.tar is not beta, it's final product. Beta licenses don't work with final product.

My understanding is that this licensing issue was a bug, and if you register again you will get an appropriate license (if you have a second email handy to give it a try, that is.) If that doesn't work for you, post here again and we'll investigate what is wrong with your specific registration.

cheers

jdg

Message Edited by jdgallag on 01-28-2004 10:41 AM

[nauch]

Hi,

I'm trying to use the sampling feature of vtune to profile my application built with icc but I keep getting "no symbols were found" when I try to view the hotspot function results for a shared object (.so) module.

I've boiled this down to a simple test case which works fine with gcc but not with icc.

$ cat foo.h
#ifndef FOO_H
#define FOO_H
void foo ();
#endif

(please substitute "less-than" for appropriate symbol, the forum things I'm trying to post html when I have an angle bracket)

$ cat foo.c
#include "foo.h"
void foo () {
int i;
for( i = 0; i less-than 100000000; i++) {
}
}

$ cat main.c
#include "foo.h"
int main () {
int i;
for( i = 0; i less-than 5; i++) {
foo();
}
}

$ icc -g -shared -fPIC foo.c -o libfoo.so
$ icc -g -c main.c -o main.o
$ icc main.o -lfoo -L.
$ vtl activity -c sampling -app a.out run
[ vtune runs ]
$ vtl show -hf -mn libfoo.so
[ .. event information .. ]
No symbols were found

If I compile *exactly* the same way using gcc instead of icc I will get the desired results (i.e. I get event %'s about my functions). I've also tried compiling with gcc using the -gdwarf-2 flag in place of the -g flag which also gives the desired results.

Why does this not work with the intel compiler? Is VTune not capable of profiling an application built this way? Does anybody have any ideas what could be wrong?

Thank You,

Nathan

some info:

icc: Version 8.0
gcc: Version 2.96
OS : RedHat 7.3 [kernel 2.4.18-3] (also tried on RHAS2.1)

[jeffrey-gallagher]

Hey Nathan,

VERY interesting problem description.

But before we dig in too far, which version of vtune are you using?

$ vtl version

[nauch]

VTune Performance Analyzer 2.0 for Linux*
Build: 348

[jeffrey-gallagher]

Henric,

Many thanks for taking the trouble to let us know what happened to you. I'll ask the web site controllers to take a look at the link that caused you the trouble.

cheers

jdg

[jeffrey-gallagher]

We've not tried gentoo around here, goanuj, and probably won't any time soon. However, here's the latest as of this writing on 2.6.

On the VDK website, we have version of VDK sources for kernel 2.6.0-test5 on x86 that works with VTune 7.0 and CLI 1.1.

http://www.intel.com/software/products/opensource/vdk/

However, it requires a patch to kernel 2.6.0-test5 (i.e., users must rebuild that kernel with the patch, and we include the patch along with the VDK sources).

We have not tested/ported VDK driver to any version of kernel 2.6.x (patched or otherwise) on Itanium Linux as yet.

I hope this helps.

cheers

jdg

[MARIA_M_Intel]

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