6 perf-timechart - Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload
11 'perf timechart' [<timechart options>] {record} [<record options>]
15 There are two variants of perf timechart:
17 'perf timechart record <command>' to record the system level events
18 of an arbitrary workload.
20 'perf timechart' to turn a trace into a Scalable Vector Graphics file,
21 that can be viewed with popular SVG viewers such as 'Inkscape'.
27 Select the output file (default: output.svg)
30 Select the input file (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo)
33 Select the width of the SVG file (default: 1000)
36 Only output the CPU power section of the diagram
39 Don't output processor state transitions
42 Select the processes to display, by name or PID
45 Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.
50 $ perf timechart record git pull
52 [ perf record: Woken up 13 times to write data ]
53 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 4.253 MB perf.data (~185801 samples) ]
57 Written 10.2 seconds of trace to output.svg.
61 Print task info for at least given number of tasks.
67 Record only power-related events
70 Record only tasks-related events
73 Do call-graph (stack chain/backtrace) recording
77 linkperf:perf-record[1]