Oprofile.inddCopyright © 2004 bmind, LLC PREMIERE ISSUE 2004 WIDE OPEN MAGAZINE 53 OProfile is very useful for identifying processor perfor- mance bottlenecks. OProfile can be configured to take samples periodically to get time-based samples to indicate which sections of code are executed on the computer system. On many architectures OProfile provides access to the performance monitoring counters. The performa
