PCA can analyze your program's resource consumption in the
time domain. That is, PCA can tell you when your program is
performing the most I/O, issues system service calls, and so on.
PCA provides two ways to view time. The first is by millisecond;
the second is in relationship to the execution of your program
and involves the use of event markers. See SET EVENT for more
information on gathering event marker data.
The PLOT and TABULATE commands accept the following nodespecs to
analyze your program's behavior in time:
TIME BY [nn] MSEC
TIME BY EVENT
The PLOT and TABULATE commands accepts all datakind qualifiers
with TIME BY EVENT nodespecs, and the following qualifiers for
TIME BY [nn] MSEC:
/PAGE_FAULTS
/FAULT_ADDRESS
/SERVICES
/IO_SERVICE
/READ_COUNT
/WRITE_COUNT
/PHYSICAL_IO_COUNT
/TASK_SWITCH
The SET FILTER command accepts the following filter
specifications to analyze your program's behavior in time:
TIME = n[:m]
TIME = event-name