ophelp(1)

ophelp1

List oprofile events

Usage

ophelp [options] [event name]

Overview

By default, ophelp lists the available performance counter options. If you give it a symbolic event name, it will return the hardware value (e.g. "ophelp DATA_MEM_REFS").

Options

--cpu-type / -c

Show the events for the given numerical CPU type.

--get-cpu-type / -r

Show the symbolic CPU name.

--xml / -X

List events in XML format.

--help / -? / --usage

Show help message.

--version / -v

Show version.

Environment

No special environment variables are recognised by ophelp.

Files

$prefix/share/oprofile/

Event description files used by OProfile.

/var/lib/oprofile/samples/

The location of the generated sample files.

Version

This man page is current for oprofile-0.9.6.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0

--xml since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -X 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.