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authorPauli Nieminen <suokkos@gmail.com>2011-06-02 09:37:46 +0300
committerPauli Nieminen <suokkos@gmail.com>2011-06-02 20:25:34 +0300
commitc86a3900def412fcbd9db3327609e01500be9db8 (patch)
treefb75285f93ab6ffaf20a0477ad66189cf38215d2 /debian
parent583ad0bc5b8ff8414b4628b1b57981e28b2c0a6f (diff)
Update man page to match the 1.1 version
Signed-off-by: Pauli Nieminen <suokkos@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'debian')
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-rw-r--r--debian/sysprof.131
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diff --git a/debian/sysprof-cli.1 b/debian/sysprof-cli.1
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+.so man1/sysprof.1
diff --git a/debian/sysprof.1 b/debian/sysprof.1
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--- a/debian/sysprof.1
+++ b/debian/sysprof.1
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-.TH SYSPROF 1 2005-12-27
+.TH SYSPROF 1 2011-06-02
.SH NAME
-SYSPROF \- System-wide Linux Profiler
+sysprof, sysprof-cli \- System-wide Linux Profiler
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B sysprof
+.RB [\-\-version]
+[
+.I filename
+]
+.br
+.B sysprof\-cli
+.I filename
.SH DESCRIPTION
-.B sysprof is a sampling CPU profiler for Linux that uses a kernel module to profile the entire system, not just a single application. Sysprof handles shared libraries and applications do not need to be recompiled. In fact they don't even have to be restarted.
+.B sysprof
+is a sampling CPU profiler for Linux that uses ftrace to profile the entire system, not just a single application. Sysprof handles shared libraries and applications do not need to be recompiled. In fact they don't even have to be restarted.
+.PP
+.B sysprof
+can be used to analyze saved profile data.
+.I filename
+parameter to
+.B sysprof
+can be used to load saved profile data. Alternatively Profiler->Open menu can be used to open a file.
+.PP
+.B sysprof\-cli
+is command-line tool to collect profiling data to
+.I filename.
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B --version
+Version. Display the version number.
+.TP
.SH AUTHOR
.B sysprof