I have found several conflicting answers over this topic. This blog post requires libuwind, but that doesn't work on Mac OS X. I included #include <google/profiler.h> in my code, however my c...

I've configured and built gperftools. however, I can't seem to find the generated profile file of my program to display it. I took the following actions: Adding the -lprofiler linker flag to my .p...

according to the document, http://gperftools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/cpuprofile.html, the cpu profiles does support multi process and will generate independent output file: If your program ...

I am looking for a simple explanation of how gperftools works. So far, this is what I have learned: It runs a stop-the-world sampler. In other words, it periodically stops the program being profi...

So I have been doing the following: $ pprof /bin/ls ls.prof Using local file /bin/ls. Gathering CPU profile from http://ls.prof/pprof/profile?seconds=30 for 30 seconds to /home/user/csteifel/ppro...

I just started using google performance tools (google-perftools and libgoogle-perftools4 packages in ubuntu), I swear that I'm googling for around a day and I didn't find an answer!! The problem is...

gperftools documentation says that libprofiler should be linked into a target program: $ gcc myprogram.c -lprofiler (without changing a code of the program). And then program should be run with...

I trying to get started with Google Perf Tools to profile some CPU intensive applications. It's a statistical calculation that dumps each step to a file using `ofstream'. I'm not a C++ expert so I'...