---
name: "kcachegrind"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kcachegrind"
version: "4:25.04.0-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kcachegrind"
---

# kcachegrind(1)

a visualisation tool for valgrind profiling output

## NAME

kcachegrind - a visualisation tool for valgrind profiling output

## SYNOPSIS

**kcachegrind** \[ *generic-options* \] \[ **-r** *exec* \] \[ *trace-file* \]

## DESCRIPTION

**KCachegrind** is a visualisation tool for the profiling data generated by **calltree**, a profiling skin for **valgrind**.  Applications can be profiled using calltree without being recompiled, and shared libraries and plugin architectures are supported.

For visualising the output from other profiling tools, several converters are available.  On Debian systems these can be found in the *kcachegrind-converters* package.

This application is part of the KDE Software Development Kit.

## OPTIONS

Below are the kcachegrind-specific options. For a full summary of options, run *kcachegrind --help*.

- **-r** *exec*

  Run the program *exec* under cachegrind.

- *trace-file*

  Visualise data from the given trace.

## SEE ALSO

**calltree**(1), [**dprof2calltree**(1)](/dprof2calltree/1.md), [**memprof2calltree**(1)](/memprof2calltree/1.md), [**op2calltree**(1)](/op2calltree/1.md), [**pprof2calltree**(1)](/pprof2calltree/1.md), [**valgrind**(1)](/valgrind/1.md).

Full user documentation is available through the KDE Help Centre. You can also enter the URL *help:/kcachegrind/* directly into konqueror or you can run \`*khelpcenter help:/kcachegrind/*' from the command-line.

If the KDE Help Centre is not installed then you can install the package *kdesdk-doc-html* and read this documentation in HTML format from */usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcachegrind/*.

## AUTHOR

KCachegrind was written by Josef Weidendorfer \<Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de\>.\
 This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton \<bab@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).