NAME¶
hotshot2calltree - convert hotshot profiling data to KCachegrind calltree format
SYNOPSIS¶
hotshot2calltree [
--file-limit limit ]
-o
output input [
input ... ]
DESCRIPTION¶
hotshot2calltree reads one or more pstat profiling data files as output
by the hotshot python profiler, and converts them into calltree format for use
by KCachegrind.
This utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit.
OPTIONS¶
- -o output
- Write the calltree output into the given file for use by KCachegrind. This
may be - if you wish to write to standard output.
- input ...
- Read the hotshot profiling data from the given file(s).
- --file-limit limit
- Stop after the given number of input files.
EXAMPLE¶
Suppose that you have used hotshot to profile a python app, with results dumped
to the file
pythongrind.prof. You may then work with this data in
KCachegrind as follows.
hotshot2cachegrind -o cachegrind.out.0 pythongrind.prof
kcachegrind cachegrind.out.0
SEE ALSO¶
kcachegrind(1).
AUTHOR¶
This converter was written by Jorg Beyer <job@webde-ag.de>.
This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> for the
Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).