Ubuntu performance counter library in C

Question

I am trying to find a library to access the performance counter in ubuntu. But I can’t find him. On linux website I found about pmc.h library. But I can not find it in my system. Can someone help me find a library to get performance counters data?

I am using ubuntu 11 and i386 processor. Another strange thing that I observed in my ubuntu is that I cannot find the / usr / include / sys directory. This is necessary to use socket.h :(

Answer 1

• I don't know about pmc (does it seem to exist only for Darwin?), But consider using libpfm :

  sudo apt-cache search libpfm 

• /usr/include/socket.h belongs to libc6-dev:

   dpkg -L libc6-dev | grep socket.h 

  Install libc6-dev via:

   sudo apt-get install libc6-dev