opgprof(1)

opgprof1

Produce gprof-format profile data

Usage

opgprof [options] [profile specification]

Overview

opgprof outputs gprof-format profile data for a given binary image, from an OProfile session. See oprofile(1) for how to write profile specifications.

Options

--help / -? / --usage

Show help message.

--version / -v

Show version.

--verbose / -V [options]

Give verbose debugging output.

--session-dir=dir_path

Use sample database out of directory dir_path instead of the default location (/var/lib/oprofile).

--image-path / -p [paths]

Comma-separated list of additional paths to search for binaries. This is needed to find modules in kernels 2.6 and upwards.

--root / -R [path]

A path to a filesystem to search for additional binaries.

--threshold / -t [percentage]

Only output data for symbols that have more than the given percentage of total samples.

--output-filename / -o [file]

Output to the given file instead of the default, gmon.out

Environment

No special environment variables are recognised by opgprof.

Files

/var/lib/oprofile/samples/

The location of the generated sample files.

Version

This man page is current for oprofile-0.9.6.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0

--root since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --session-dir since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -R since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

From oprofile 0.9.6-1.1+squeeze2 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.