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The man pages have a fair amount of documentation, you can also look
dev/hwpmc/pmc_events.h to find all the event names.

-Kip

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:23 PM, carl tropper <carl@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
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> What are the performance counters for multicore (unix based) machines which
> are relevant to cache behavior? I am interested in determining the amount of
> performance loss due to cache misses.
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> Carl Tropper
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