6 perf-timechart - Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload
11 'perf timechart' record <command>
12 'perf timechart' [<options>]
16 There are two variants of perf timechart:
18 'perf timechart record <command>' to record the system level events
19 of an arbitrary workload.
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'.
28 Select the output file (default: output.svg)
31 Select the input file (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo)
34 Select the width of the SVG file (default: 1000)
37 Only output the CPU power section of the diagram
40 Select the processes to display, by name or PID
43 Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.
48 $ perf timechart record git pull
50 [ perf record: Woken up 13 times to write data ]
51 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 4.253 MB perf.data (~185801 samples) ]
55 Written 10.2 seconds of trace to output.svg.
59 linkperf:perf-record[1]