Choosing an Experiment Type

• If you have high user CPU time, you should run usertime, pcsamp, *_hwc and ideal experiments

• If you have high system CPU time, you should run fpe if floating point exceptions are suspected

• High I/O time you should run ideal and then examine counts of I/O routines

• High paging you should run ideal then:

  • prof -feedback
  • Use cord to rearrange procedures

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