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-p:: 39--process:: 40 Select the processes to display, by name or PID 41 42--symfs=<directory>:: 43 Look for files with symbols relative to this directory. 44 45EXAMPLES 46-------- 47 48$ perf timechart record git pull 49 50 [ perf record: Woken up 13 times to write data ] 51 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 4.253 MB perf.data (~185801 samples) ] 52 53$ perf timechart 54 55 Written 10.2 seconds of trace to output.svg. 56 57SEE ALSO 58-------- 59linkperf:perf-record[1] 60