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Name

Icon Profiler - Serenity process profiler

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Synopsis

$ Profiler [--pid PID] [perfcore-file]

Description

Profiler facilitates process performance profiling and provides a GUI offering visual graph and tree representations to easily navigate generated profiling information.

If no arguments are provided, a window containing a list of running processes is presented, allowing a process to be selected for profiling.

Profiling information is written to perfcore.<pid> in the working directory and opened immediately for browsing following termination of profiling.

Profiler can also load performance information from previously created perfcore files.

Options

  • -p PID, --pid PID: PID to profile

Arguments

  • perfcore-file: Path of perfcore file to load

Examples

Profile running Shell process:

$ Profiler -p $(pidof Shell)

Open a previously created perfcore file for browsing:

$ Profiler perfcore.123

See also

  • perfcore(5)