Best ways to analyze application performance?

[Soeren Sandmann]

Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com> writes:

> Do special tools exist for measuring performance of x11 based
> applications? If not, which profiler would you recommend for tuning
> x11 based applications?

You might try sysprof:

   http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sandmann/sysprof/

which is a system-wide profiler like oprofile, but IMO much easier to
use. You need a 2.6.11 kernel and an x86 CPU. Make sure you read the
README about how to get useful data out of the X server.


Søren