December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
202 pages
8h 29m
English
Content preview from Linux Kernel in a NutshellBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Name
profile — Control the kernel profiling.
Synopsis
profile=[schedule
,][number]
This option affects how the kernel profiler is calculated. If schedule is specified, the schedule points
are affected by the value set in number.
If schedule is not specified,
number is the step size as a power of two
for statistical time-based profiling in the kernel.
The most common use of this option is profile=2