OPHELP

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Fri 22 June 2012
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NAME

ophelp - list OProfile events

SYNOPSIS

ophelp [ options ] [event name]

DESCRIPTION

By default, ophelp lists the available performance counter options. If you give it a symbolic event name, it will return the hardware value (e.g. "ophelp DATA_MEM_REFS").

OPTIONS

--cpu-type / -c: Show the events for the given numerical CPU type.
--get-cpu-type / -r: Show the symbolic CPU name.
--xml / -X: List events in XML format.
--help / -? / --usage: Show help message.
--version / -v: Show version.

ENVIRONMENT

No special environment variables are recognised by ophelp.

FILES

$prefix/share/oprofile/: Event description files used by OProfile.
/var/lib/oprofile/samples/: The location of the generated sample files.

VERSION

This man page is current for oprofile-0.9.7.

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