To start monitoring the system with OProfile, execute the following command as root:
opcontrol --start |
Output similar to the following is displayed:
Using log file /var/lib/oprofile/oprofiled.log Daemon started. Profiler running. |
The settings in /root/.oprofile/daemonrc are used.
The OProfile daemon, oprofiled, is started; it periodically writes the sample data to the /var/lib/oprofile/samples/ directory. The log file for the daemon is located at /var/lib/oprofile/oprofiled.log.
If OProfile is restarted with different configuration options, the sample files for the previous session are automatically backed up in the directory /var/lib/oprofile/samples/session-N, where N is the number of the previously backed-up session plus 1.
Backing up samples file to directory /var/lib/oprofile/samples//session-1 Using log file /var/lib/oprofile/oprofiled.log Daemon started. Profiler running. |
To stop the profiler, executing the following command as root:
opcontrol --shutdown |