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