1151750ceSArjan van de Venperf-timechart(1) 2151750ceSArjan van de Ven================= 3151750ceSArjan van de Ven 4151750ceSArjan van de VenNAME 5151750ceSArjan van de Ven---- 6151750ceSArjan van de Venperf-timechart - Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload 7151750ceSArjan van de Ven 8151750ceSArjan van de VenSYNOPSIS 9151750ceSArjan van de Ven-------- 10151750ceSArjan van de Ven[verse] 11d366c53eSRamkumar Ramachandra'perf timechart' record <command> 12d366c53eSRamkumar Ramachandra'perf timechart' [<options>] 13151750ceSArjan van de Ven 14151750ceSArjan van de VenDESCRIPTION 15151750ceSArjan van de Ven----------- 16151750ceSArjan van de VenThere are two variants of perf timechart: 17151750ceSArjan van de Ven 18151750ceSArjan van de Ven 'perf timechart record <command>' to record the system level events 19151750ceSArjan van de Ven of an arbitrary workload. 20151750ceSArjan van de Ven 21151750ceSArjan van de Ven 'perf timechart' to turn a trace into a Scalable Vector Graphics file, 22151750ceSArjan van de Ven that can be viewed with popular SVG viewers such as 'Inkscape'. 23151750ceSArjan van de Ven 24151750ceSArjan van de VenOPTIONS 25151750ceSArjan van de Ven------- 26151750ceSArjan van de Ven-o:: 27151750ceSArjan van de Ven--output=:: 28151750ceSArjan van de Ven Select the output file (default: output.svg) 29151750ceSArjan van de Ven-i:: 30151750ceSArjan van de Ven--input=:: 31efad1415SRobert Richter Select the input file (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo) 325094b655SArjan van de Ven-w:: 335094b655SArjan van de Ven--width=:: 345094b655SArjan van de Ven Select the width of the SVG file (default: 1000) 35bbe2987bSArjan van de Ven-P:: 3639a90a8eSArjan van de Ven--power-only:: 3739a90a8eSArjan van de Ven Only output the CPU power section of the diagram 38c87097d3SStanislav Fomichev-T:: 39c87097d3SStanislav Fomichev--tasks-only:: 40c87097d3SStanislav Fomichev Don't output processor state transitions 41bbe2987bSArjan van de Ven-p:: 42bbe2987bSArjan van de Ven--process:: 43bbe2987bSArjan van de Ven Select the processes to display, by name or PID 44151750ceSArjan van de Ven 45ec5761eaSDavid Ahern--symfs=<directory>:: 46ec5761eaSDavid Ahern Look for files with symbols relative to this directory. 47151750ceSArjan van de Ven 48d366c53eSRamkumar RamachandraEXAMPLES 49d366c53eSRamkumar Ramachandra-------- 50d366c53eSRamkumar Ramachandra 51d366c53eSRamkumar Ramachandra$ perf timechart record git pull 52d366c53eSRamkumar Ramachandra 53d366c53eSRamkumar Ramachandra [ perf record: Woken up 13 times to write data ] 54d366c53eSRamkumar Ramachandra [ perf record: Captured and wrote 4.253 MB perf.data (~185801 samples) ] 55d366c53eSRamkumar Ramachandra 56d366c53eSRamkumar Ramachandra$ perf timechart 57d366c53eSRamkumar Ramachandra 58d366c53eSRamkumar Ramachandra Written 10.2 seconds of trace to output.svg. 59d366c53eSRamkumar Ramachandra 6054874e32SStanislav Fomichev-n:: 6154874e32SStanislav Fomichev--proc-num:: 6254874e32SStanislav Fomichev Print task info for at least given number of tasks. 6354874e32SStanislav Fomichev 64151750ceSArjan van de VenSEE ALSO 65151750ceSArjan van de Ven-------- 66151750ceSArjan van de Venlinkperf:perf-record[1] 67
