From announce at lists.nycbug.org  Mon Nov  3 09:42:38 2008
From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements)
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:42:38 -0500
Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Wednesday: GNN on Hardware Performance
	Monitoring Counters
Message-ID: <490F0DDE.7070009@ceetonetechnology.com>

November 05, 2008

Hardware Performance Monitoring Counters

6:30pm, Suspenders Restaurant
http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php

Many modern CPUs provide on chip counters for performance events such as 
retiring instructions and cache misses. The hwpmc driver and libraries 
in FreeBSD give systems administrators and programmers access to APIs 
which make it possible to measure performance without modifying source 
code and with minimal intrusion into application execution. This talk 
will be a brief introduction to HWPMC, and how to use it.

George Neville-Neil is the co-author with Kirk McKusick of The Design 
and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System. He works on 
networking an operating systems for fun and profit.


From announce at lists.nycbug.org  Wed Nov  5 10:05:39 2008
From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements)
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:05:39 -0500
Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Meeting TONIGHT
Message-ID: <4911B643.2090708@ceetonetechnology.com>

November 05, 2008

Hardware Performance Monitoring Counters

6:30pm, Suspenders Restaurant Backroom

http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php

Many modern CPUs provide on chip counters for performance events such as 
retiring instructions and cache misses. The hwpmc driver and libraries 
in FreeBSD give systems administrators and programmers access to APIs 
which make it possible to measure performance without modifying source 
code and with minimal intrusion into application execution. This talk 
will be a brief introduction to HWPMC, and how to use it.

Bio: George Neville-Neil is the co-author with Kirk McKusick of The 
Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System. He works on 
networking an operating systems for fun and profit.

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This year's holiday party will replace the December 3rd meeting.

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Please note these two upcoming BSD conferences:

meetBSD California 2008, November 15 & 16, Mountain View, CA
http://www.meetbsd.com/

dcbsdcon 2009, February 4 & 5, Washington, DC
http://dcbsdcon.org/

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Thanks to all who made NYCBSDCon 2008 a massive success!