\section{Performance monitoring} \label{sect:monitoring} This section describes various tools that are available to monitor and debug the performance of EvtGen. \subsection{Efficiency} \label{sect:mon_eff} One, of many, possible reason for the generator to run slowly is that the maximum probability, against which the acceptance-rejection method is applied, is to high. This means that the efficiency for accepting an event is low. Diagnostics of this can be studied by setting the environment variable ``EVTINFO''. At the end of the job a summary will then be printed out which gives the number of times each decay model was invoked, the efficiency for accepting the decay and the ratio of the largest probability in the sample that was generated to the maximum probability. Optimal running condition wants to maximize both of these.