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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2006
Scott Thomas Jones, Austin, TX (US);
Frank Eliot Levine, Austin, TX (US);
Enio Manuel Pineda, Austin, TX (US);
Scott Thomas Jones, Austin, TX (US);
Frank Eliot Levine, Austin, TX (US);
Enio Manuel Pineda, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for sampling call stack information. Monitoring for an event is performed during an execution of a plurality of threads by a set of processors. A portion of the plurality of threads is identified based on a policy to form a set of identified threads in response to an occurrence of the event. Call stack information is collected for the set of identified threads using an under utilized processor in a set of processors in response to identifying the portion of the plurality of threads, wherein the call stack information is used to profile a processor in the set of processors.