SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

oparchive generates a directory populated with executable, debug, and oprofile sample files. This directory can be move to another machine via tar and analyzed without further use of the data collection machine. See oprofile(1) for how to write profile specifications.

OPTIONS

--help / -? / --usage

Show help message.

--version / -v

Show version.

--verbose / -V [options]

Give verbose debugging output.

--session-dir=dir_path

Use sample database out of directory dir_path instead of the default location (/var/lib/oprofile).

--image-path / -p [paths]

Comma-separated list of additional paths to search for binaries. This is needed to find modules in kernels 2.6 and upwards.

--root / -R [path]

A path to a filesystem to search for additional binaries.

--output-directory / -o [directory]

Output to the given directory. There is no default. This must be specified.

--exclude-dependent / -x

Do not include application-specific images for libraries, kernel modules and the kernel. This option only makes sense if the profile session used --separate.

--list-files / -l

Only list the files that would be archived, don't copy them.

FILES

/var/lib/oprofile/samples/

The location of the generated sample files.

VERSION

This man page is current for oprofile-0.9.6.