SYNOPSIS

hotshot2calltree [ --file-limit limit ] -o output input [ input ... ]

DESCRIPTION

hotshot2calltree reads one or more pstat profiling data files as output by the hotshot python profiler, and converts them into calltree format for use by KCachegrind.

This utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit.

OPTIONS

-o output

Write the calltree output into the given file for use by KCachegrind. This may be - if you wish to write to standard output.

input ...

Read the hotshot profiling data from the given file(s).

--file-limit limit

Stop after the given number of input files.

EXAMPLE

Suppose that you have used hotshot to profile a python app, with results dumped to the file pythongrind.prof. You may then work with this data in KCachegrind as follows.

hotshot2cachegrind -o cachegrind.out.0 pythongrind.prof
kcachegrind cachegrind.out.0

AUTHOR

This converter was written by Jorg Beyer <[email protected]>.
This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).