Understanding the Sampling Collector

The Sampling Collector, a GUI tool within the Sun WorkShop debugger, collects performance behavior data from the kernel under which the application is running and writes that data to an experiment record file. The execution of the application during which data is collected is called the experiment.

Before collecting behavior data, you can define the following:

• The directory and file name to which you want experiment data written

• The period of time during which to sample data

• The type of data to collect