Re: KERNEL PROFILING

["shesha bhushan" <bhushan_vadulas@hotmail.com>]

Hi
If I use the command line option "profile=2" while booting the system, why 
/proc/profile file is not created? Should I have to create it manually?

Thanking You'
Shesha





>From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
>To: "shesha bhushan" <bhushan_vadulas@hotmail.com>
>CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
>Subject: Re: KERNEL PROFILING
>Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 08:01:55 -0700
>
>On Tue, 08 Apr 2003 07:58:54 +0000 "shesha bhushan" 
><bhushan_vadulas@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>| HI ALL,
>|   I am trying to profile the linux kernel. Can any one suggest an easy 
>way
>| to do. Like, I wanted to see how much TCP is using CPU, how much of CPU 
>is
>| used in memcpy, etc.
>| Can any one please suggest me.
>
>Start with the file linux/Documentation/basic_profiling.txt
>(it's in Linux 2.5.66-or-so or later).
>
>It explains how to use oprofile and readprofile.
>
>You can read about oprofile at http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/ .
>
>You can read about basic in-kernel profiling using /proc/profile
>and readprofile via 'man readprofile'.  It's simple to use.
>
>--
>~Randy


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