Running an Application Under spot

To get the most information from the spot run with the -X option. The downside of using this option is that it takes longer to gather the data. If spot is run with root privileges, as well as the -X option, it will also gather bandwidth utilization and trap data. The command line to run the example application under spot is:.

$ spot -X test

SPOT will produce a subdirectory spot_run1 and several files in the current directory. One of the files is spot_summary.html. To start examining SPOT’s output, view the content of spot_summary.html in a browser. Subsequent spot runs in the current directory will produce spot_run2, spot_run3, etc. and will add content to spot_summary.html.