1perf-timechart(1) 2================= 3 4NAME 5---- 6perf-timechart - Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10[verse] 11'perf timechart' record <command> 12'perf timechart' [<options>] 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16There are two variants of perf timechart: 17 18 'perf timechart record <command>' to record the system level events 19 of an arbitrary workload. 20 21 'perf timechart' to turn a trace into a Scalable Vector Graphics file, 22 that can be viewed with popular SVG viewers such as 'Inkscape'. 23 24OPTIONS 25------- 26-o:: 27--output=:: 28 Select the output file (default: output.svg) 29-i:: 30--input=:: 31 Select the input file (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo) 32-w:: 33--width=:: 34 Select the width of the SVG file (default: 1000) 35-P:: 36--power-only:: 37 Only output the CPU power section of the diagram 38-T:: 39--tasks-only:: 40 Don't output processor state transitions 41-p:: 42--process:: 43 Select the processes to display, by name or PID 44 45--symfs=<directory>:: 46 Look for files with symbols relative to this directory. 47 48EXAMPLES 49-------- 50 51$ perf timechart record git pull 52 53 [ perf record: Woken up 13 times to write data ] 54 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 4.253 MB perf.data (~185801 samples) ] 55 56$ perf timechart 57 58 Written 10.2 seconds of trace to output.svg. 59 60-n:: 61--proc-num:: 62 Print task info for at least given number of tasks. 63 64SEE ALSO 65-------- 66linkperf:perf-record[1] 67