Ampere System Profiler: A Guide to System-Level Profiling

Executive Summary The Ampere® System Profiler (ASP) is a Python command-line interface utility that uses a set of Linux profiling tools to gather system-level performance metrics while running applications of interest. The system-level collectors run in parallel and provide detailed reporting on network, disk, CPU utilization, and top functions via perf during the sample period. This is helpful to determine system-level bottlenecks.