---
name: "otfprofile"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "otf-trace"
version: "1.12.5+dfsg-8+b5"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/otfprofile"
---

# otfprofile(1)

Generate a profile of an OTF trace

## NAME

otfprofile - Generate a profile of an OTF trace

## DESCRIPTION

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  otfprofile - Generate a profile of an OTF trace in LaTeX format.

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  Syntax: otfprofile **-i** \<input file name\> \[options\]

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  options:

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message

- **-V**

  show OTF version

- **-v**

  increase output verbosity (can be used more than once)

- **-i** \<file\>

  specify the input trace name

- **-p**

  show progress

- **-f** \<n\>

  max. number of filehandles available per rank (default: 50)

- **-b** \<size\>

  set buffersize of the reader (default: 1048576)

- **-o** \<prefix\>

  specify the prefix of output file(s) (default: result)

- **-g** \<n\>

  max. number of process groups in LaTeX output (range: 1-16, default: 16)

**-c**, **--cluster** do additional clustering of processes/threads

- **--cluster-alg** \<alg\>

  set comparison algorithm for clustering to "KMEANS" or "CLINKAGE" (default: KMEANS)

- **-s** \<prefix\>

  call otfshrink to apply the cluster mapping to input trace and produce a new trace named \<prefix\> with symbolic links to the original (implies **-c**)

- **-H**

  use hard groups for CLINKAGE clustering (implies **--cluster-alg** CLINKAGE)

- **-q** \<0-1\>

  quality threshold for CLINKAGE clustering (implies **--cluster-alg** CLINKAGE, default: 0.1)

- **-d**, **--disp** \<options\>

  do additional analysis of irregularities using various output options to be specified in a comma-separated list possible values are:

- filter

  create VampirTrace filter rules from analysis information,

- info

  add information of irregularities to PDF output,

- marker

  add marker information to trace file

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  (implies **--tex**, default: info)

- **--disp-mode** \<mode\>

  set profiling level within the analysis to "per-function" or "per-call-path" (default: per-function)

- **--disp-reduction** \<percentage\>

  set percentage of call-paths to be filtered. (default: 15)

- **--disp-filter** \<file\>

  name of the previous filter file that will be added to the new filter file

- **-M**, **--csv-msg-matrix**

  write communication matrix in CSV file (implies **--csv**)

- **-S**, **--csv-msg-size**

  write message length statistics in CSV file (implies **--csv**)

- **--stat**

  read only summarized information, no events

- **--\[no\]csv**

  enable/disable producing CSV output (default: disabled)

- **--\[no\]tex**

  enable/disable producing LaTeX output (default: enabled)

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  PDF creation requires the PGFPLOTS package version \>1.4 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgfplots/