Collecting Data, Batch Style

For more involved data collection experiments, you can collect TNF profiling information in batch mode, for viewing and analysis in a later, interactive session. Such collection may be performed using Prism in commands-only mode, invoked with prism -C. For example, the simplest data collection experiment would be

tnfcollection on
run
wait
quit

The wait command is needed to keep file merge from happening until after the program has completed running. One way of feeding commands to Prism is through the .prisminit file (note the leading "."), which is read by Prism upon startup. See Appendix A, Commands-Only Prism and Chapter 10, Customizing Prism for more information on commands-only mode and .prisminit files, respectively.