man(1)

👑 eztrace — like, the manual page bestie 💅

okay so you found the eztrace(1) page, welcome to the group chat. pull up a chair, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let me tell you about this performance analysis tool. it's giving "run your program but make it a whole forensic investigation" and honestly? obsessed.

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✨ NAME ✨

eztrace — performance analysis tool 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

eztrace [OPTION] COMMAND_LINE

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

the whole vibe: you hand eztrace a COMMAND_LINE, it runs that thing, and it generates an execution trace for you. that's it. that's the girl. 🌸

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -t [plugin1 plugin2 ... pluginN] — pick a whole little roster of plugins. like, a list. name them all, bestie. 💖
• -o DIRECTORY — tell it where the output DIRECTORY should live 🎀
• -l DIRECTORY — add DIRECTORY to the list of directories where eztrace goes looking for plugins 🔍
• -f — turns on EZTRACE_FLUSH ✨
• -d — debug mode, for when you need to see everything 👀
• -?, -h — shows this help and dips out. iconic behavior honestly 💅

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✨ EXAMPLES ✨

run your little program with the memory and pthread plugins:

$ eztrace -t "memory pthread" ./my_program param1 param2

and here's the glow-up version — two MPI processes, mpi and pthread plugins, main character energy:

$ mpirun -np 2 eztrace -t "mpi pthread" ./my_program param1 param2

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• eztrace.preload(1)
• eztrace_cc(1)
• eztrace_avail(1)

the friend group 🫶 go say hi.

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✨ REPORTING BUGS ✨

found a bug? don't be shy, report those eztrace bugs to <https://gitlab.com/eztrace/eztrace> 🐛

EZTrace home page: <https://eztrace.gitlab.io/eztrace> 🌈

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Francois Trahay (francois.trahay@telecom-sudparis.eu) — thank you king 👑

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okay that's the whole page, no cap. every flag, every path, every link, all of it — preserved and slayed. 💜

version 2.0, dated 13 january 2022 — periodt, that's the tea, bye bestie 🎀✨