| perf-timechart - Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload |
| 'perf timechart' record <command> |
| 'perf timechart' [<options>] |
| There are two variants of perf timechart: |
| 'perf timechart record <command>' to record the system level events |
| of an arbitrary workload. |
| 'perf timechart' to turn a trace into a Scalable Vector Graphics file, |
| that can be viewed with popular SVG viewers such as 'Inkscape'. |
| Select the output file (default: output.svg) |
| Select the input file (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo) |
| Select the width of the SVG file (default: 1000) |
| Only output the CPU power section of the diagram |
| Select the processes to display, by name or PID |
| Look for files with symbols relative to this directory. |
| $ perf timechart record git pull |
| [ perf record: Woken up 13 times to write data ] |
| [ perf record: Captured and wrote 4.253 MB perf.data (~185801 samples) ] |
| Written 10.2 seconds of trace to output.svg. |