Collecting process time information on your application tells you where your application is spending the most process, or CPU, time. Process time excludes external factors such as device wait loops and system load from the data sampling on your application. Thus you get a good indication of where your application has compute- bound performance bottlenecks. To collect process time information on your application: o Compile and link your application with the PCA Collector o Run your application. This causes the PCA Collector to take control of your application. PCA diplays the Collector main window on your screen. o From the File pull-down menu, create a data file into which the Collector places performance data. o Choose the Process Execution query category. o Click on the process time query. o Click on Collect in the Collector main window. For information on displaying the results of the process time query, refer to: o The hardcopy manual, Guide to DIGITAL Performance and Coverage Analyzer for OpenVMS Systems o The online help for the PCA Analyzer.