PW-PROFILER(1) General Commands Manual PW-PROFILER(1)
NAME
pw-profiler - The PipeWire profiler
SYNOPSIS
pw-profiler [options]
DESCRIPTION
Start profiling a PipeWire instance.
If the server has the profiler module loaded, this program will connect
to it and log the profiler data. Profiler data contains times and dura-
tions when processing nodes and devices started and completed.
When this program is stopped, a set of gnuplot files and a script to
generate SVG files from the .plot files is generated, along with a
.html file to visualize the profiling results in a browser.
OPTIONS
-r | --remote=NAME
The name the remote instance to monitor. If left unspecified, a
connection is made to the default PipeWire instance.
-h | --help
Show help.
--version
Show version information.
-o | --output=FILE
Profiler output name (default "profiler.log").
AUTHORS
The PipeWire Developers <-
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>; PipeWire is
available from https://pipewire.org
SEE ALSO
pipewire(1),
PW-PROFILER(1)
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