Analyzing Program Performance With Sun WorkShop

Summary Data

Summary statistics are always collected, and include two kinds of data. The first kind is shown on the initial screen of the Sampling Analyzer, and is a summary of the amount of time the program spent in various states. States include user time, system time, system wait time, text page fault time, and data page fault time.The second kind of statistics is shown in the "Execution Statistics" screen of the Analyzer, and includes page fault and I/O statistics, context switches, and a variety of page residency (working-set and paging) statistics.