Using PROFILE

The syntax for calling PROFILE is:

profile [/a] [/innn] [/k] name-of-image [parameters] 
 

PROFILE has the following command-line options.

/a

Display all functions or addresses that were sampled.

/bnnn

Set the sample address granularity. Set profile bucket size to 2**nnn bytes. The default setting is 4 bytes.

/ffilename

Send the output to the file named filename. The default setting is PROFILE.OUT.

/innn

Set sample interval to nnn (in 100-nanosecond units). The default value is 488.2 microseconds (/i4882).

/k

Allow profiling of the kernel-mode functions called by the application being profiled.

/sprofilesource

Use profilesource as the profile interrupt source instead of clock interrupt. This option is not supported on all platforms. The supported platforms and options are listed following.

Platform	Options
ALPHA	align branchinstructions branchmispredicts dcachemisses icachemisses loadinstructions pipelinedry pipelinefrozen totalnonissues storeinstructions totalissues
MIPS	align

/Sprofilesource

Use profilesource as the secondary profile interrupt source. The options are the same as those specified for the /s option.