Notes on the SPOT report

There are some final points to be aware of when using SPOT reports.

• All the data and commands used to generate the SPOT report are recorded in the same directory as the report.

• The directory contains a Performance Analyzer experiment (test.1.er) which is used to generate the html profile. This experiment can be loaded into analyzer or er_print if further investigation of the profile is necessary.

• The SPOT report contains log files for the various stages. These log files will report error conditions if they are encountered. There is one log file, named debug.log, which contains a transcript of all the commands used to generate the report.

• The SPOT report will contain information that might be considered confidential, and so care should be taken in handling the report. Examples of the information that the report may contain are:

  • The commands that ran the binary.

  • The location of the binary and where it was run.

  • The location of the compiler used to build the binary.

  • The compiler flags used to build the binary.

  • The name and configuration of the machine that the binary was run on.

  • The source code to files that contain routines where significant time is spent.