ladybird/Base/usr/share/man/man1/Profiler.md

Name

Profiler - Serenity process profiler

Synopsis

$ Profiler [--pid PID] [perfcore file]

Description

Profiler facilitates process performance profiling and provides a GUI offering visual graph and tree representations to easily navigate generated profiling information.

If no arguments are provided, a window containing a list of running processes is presented, allowing a process to be selected for profiling.

Profiling information is written to perfcore.<pid> in the working directory and opened immediately for browsing following termination of profiling.

Profiler can also load performance information from previously created perfcore files.

Options

• -p PID, --pid PID: PID to profile

Examples

Profile running Shell process:

$ Profiler -p $(pidof Shell)

Open a previously created perfcore file for browsing:

$ Profiler perfcore.123

See also

• perfcore(5)