---
name: "vipsprofile"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libvips-tools"
version: "8.16.1-1+deb13u1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/vipsprofile"
---

# vipsprofile(1)

analyze vips profiles

## NAME

vipsprofile - analyze vips profiles

## SYNOPSIS

**vipsprofile**

## DESCRIPTION

**[vipsprofile(1)](/vipsprofile/1.md)** analyzes the file written by the --vips-profile option, calculates some statistics, and draws a graph of evaluation.

Run any vips program with the --vips-profile option to generate a file called "vips-profile.txt". This contains timing information about CPU use, memory use and thread synchronisation.

Run **[vipsprofile(1)](/vipsprofile/1.md)** to load this file, calculate some  statistics, and draw a graph of evaluation saved to vips-profile.svg. This analysis can help track down performance problems.

For example:

  $ vips sharpen shark.jpg x.jpg --vips-profile\
   recording profile in vips-profile.txt\
   $ vipsprofile\
   reading from vips-profile.txt\
   loaded 3622 events\
   total time = 0.138322\
   name          alive   wait%   work%   unkn%   memory  peakm\
   worker 20      0.069  34.5    58.9    6.65    3.14    5.56    \
   worker 21       0.07  1.36    60.2    38.4    2.65    5.07    \
   worker 22       0.07  33      55.8    11.1    2.62    5.04    \
   worker 23      0.072  34.2    59.7    6.15    2.72    5.14    \
   wbuffer 24     0.075  99      1.03    0.00401 0       0       \
   wbuffer 25     0.075  95.6    4.39    0.00667 0       0       \
   main 26         0.14  52.8    0       47.2    -11.1   0.787   \
   peak memory = 21.6 MB\
   writing to vips-profile.svg

## RETURN VALUE

returns 0 on success and non-zero on error.

## SEE ALSO

[vips(1)](/vips/1.md)