Problem:
Running Intel® Inspector on a script that launches and provides input to the application of interest produces the message
Error: Cannot find analysis results. Suggestion: Make sure that application launched your executable of interest
Example:
The python file a.py is used to start the executable of interest, test_memory:
import os
os.system("./test_memory")Running Inspector on it produces an error:
> inspxe-cl -collect mi3 -executable-of-interest test_memory -- python a.py
Error: Cannot find analysis results. Suggestion: Make sure that application launched your executable of interest test_memory
Root Cause:
When the script uses the system call to launch the target process, it might run in another shell. Inspector cannot profile a target application which runs in a different shell than the launched application (in this case, python a.py).
Solution:
Ensure that the application is launched in the same shell as the called script.
- For a shell script, the problem can be fixed by removing the "#!/bin/sh" line.
- For a Python script, the issue can be resolved by using a subroutine call:
import subprocess subprocess.call("./test_memory")