Oprofile

= System Profiling With Oprofile =

OProfile is a system-wide profiler for Linux systems, capable of profiling all running code at low overhead. OProfile is released under the GNU GPL. It consists of a kernel driver and a daemon for collecting sample data, and several post-profiling tools for turning data into information.

OProfile leverages the hardware performance counters of the CPU to enable profiling of a wide variety of interesting statistics, which can also be used for basic time-spent profiling. All code is profiled: hardware and software interrupt handlers, kernel modules, the kernel, shared libraries, and applications.

In Fedora, you must install debuginfo RPMS to get proper debug information. More details about Oprofile can be found at http://people.redhat.com/wcohen/

Getting Started

 * http://people.redhat.com/wcohen/Fedora12OprofileTutorial.txt
 * http://www.redhat.com/magazine/012oct05/features/oprofile/