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Name
profile - Process or system profiler
Synopsis
$ profile [-p PID] [-a] [-e] [-d] [-f] [-w] [-t event_type] [COMMAND_TO_PROFILE]
Description
profile records profiling information that can then be read with ProfileViewer.
Options
- -p PID: Target PID
- -a: Profile all processes (super-user only), result at /sys/kernel/profile
- -e: Enable
- -d: Disable
- -f: Free the profiling buffer for the associated process(es).
- -w: Enable profiling and wait for user input to disable.
- -t event_type: Enable tracking specific event type
Event type can be one of: sample, context_switch, page_fault, syscall, read, kmalloc and kfree.
Examples
# Enable whole-system profiling
$ profile -ae
# ...then, to stop
$ profile -ad
# Profile a running process, with PID 42
$ profile -p 42
# Profile syscalls made by echo
$ profile -t syscall -- echo "Hello friends!"
See also
- Profiler(1) GUI for viewing profiling data produced by- profile.
- strace(1)
