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google-pprof - manual page for google-pprof (part of gperftools)

google-pprof [options] <program> <profile>

Prints specified cpu- or heap-profile

Sort by cumulative data
Subtract <base> from <profile> before display

Report at address level
Report at source line level
Report at function level [default]
Report at source file level

Generate text report [default]
Generate Postscript and display
Generate source listing of matching routines
Generate disassembly of matching routines
Generate DOT file to stdout
Generate Postscript to stdout
Generate PDF to stdout
Generate GIF to stdout

Display in-use (mega)bytes [default]
Display in-use objects
Display allocated (mega)bytes
Display allocated objects
Display space in bytes
Ignore negaive differences

Show at most so many nodes [default=80]
Hide nodes below <f>*total [default=.005]
Hide edges below <f>*total [default=.001]
Focus on nodes matching <regexp>
Ignore nodes matching <regexp>
Set GV scaling [default=0]

google-pprof /bin/ls ls.prof

Outputs one line per procedure

google-pprof --gv /bin/ls ls.prof

Displays annotated call-graph via 'gv'

google-pprof --gv --focus=Mutex /bin/ls ls.prof

Restricts to code paths including a .*Mutex.* entry

google-pprof --gv --focus=Mutex --ignore=string /bin/ls ls.prof

Code paths including Mutex but not string

google-pprof --list=getdir /bin/ls ls.prof

Dissassembly (with per-line annotations) for getdir()

google-pprof --disasm=getdir /bin/ls ls.prof

Dissassembly (with per-PC annotations) for getdir()

Copyright © 2005 Google Inc.

Further documentation for google-pprof is maintained as a web page called cpu_profiler.html and is likely installed at one of the following locations:

/usr/share/doc/libgoogle-perftools-dev/cpuprofile.html
/usr/local/share/gperftools/cpu_profiler.html
February 2005 google-pprof (part of gperftools)