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Usage: prof -p pid [-t total_secs] [-d delta_msec] [6.out args ...]
-The formats (default -h) are:
+The output modes (default -h) are:
+ -P file.prof:
+ Write the profile information to file.prof, in the format used by pprof.
+ At the moment, this only works on Linux amd64 binaries and requires that the
+ binary be written using 6l -e to produce ELF debug info.
+ See http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools for details.
-h: histograms
- How many times a sample occurred at each location
+ How many times a sample occurred at each location.
-f: dynamic functions
At each sample period, print the name of the executing function.
-l: dynamic file and line numbers