FLAMEGRAPH.PL(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so this is flamegraph.pl — literally the FLAMEGRAPH.PL(1) user-commands manual page, bestie — aka the manual page for flamegraph.pl 1.0. periodt. 💅

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

the whole vibe starts here:

USAGE: ./flamegraph.pl [options] infile > outfile.svg

here’s the full options menu, no skips, no cap:

• --title TEXT — changes the title text ✨
• --subtitle TEXT — second level title, and it’s optional 🎀
• --width NUM — width of image (default 1200) 🦋
• --height NUM — height of each frame (default 16) 🌸
• --minwidth NUM — omit smaller functions (default 0.1 pixels) 💀
• --fonttype FONT — font type (default "Verdana") 🫶
• --fontsize NUM — font size (default 12) ⭐
• --countname TEXT — count type label (default "samples") 🍓
• --nametype TEXT — name type label (default "Function:") 👑
• --colors PALETTE — set color palette. choices are: hot (default), mem, io, wakeup, chain, java, js, perl, red, green, blue, aqua, yellow, purple, orange 🌈
• --bgcolors COLOR — set background colors. gradient choices are yellow (default), blue, green, grey; flat colors use "#rrggbb" 🎨
• --hash — colors are keyed by function name hash 🔥
• --cp — use consistent palette (palette.map) 💜
• --reverse — generate stack-reversed flame graph 🙈
• --inverted — icicle graph 🧊
• --flamechart — produce a flame chart (sort by time, do not merge stacks) ⏰
• --negate — switch differential hues (blue<->red) 💙💔❤️
• --notes TEXT — add notes comment in SVG (for debugging) 📝
• --help — this message 🫡

and here’s the little example, exactly as given:

eg, ./flamegraph.pl --title="Flame Graph: malloc()" trace.txt > graph.svg

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sending you off with all the love: this was flamegraph.pl 1.0, dated November 2022, living its best FLAMEGRAPH.PL(1) life 🎀✨🫶