LIBPIPEWIRE-MODULE-PROFILER(7)

💖 libpipewire-module-profiler(7) — the profiler module, explained by your bestie

okay so you found the <rainbow>libpipew...-profiler</rainbow> manual page (yes that's the truncated filename, it's giving ✨mysterious✨, and the full thing lives in the Miscellaneous Information Manual) and you want the tea on the profiler module? say less. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

libpipewire-module-profiler — Profiler. that's it, that's the name, short and iconic. ✨

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so basically, the profiler module hands out a Profiler interface to applications, and that interface is what lets them receive profiling information. that's the whole job. it's the plug that says "hey, here's your data, bestie." 🫶

and then to actually collect that profiled tea about the pipewire graph, you reach for tools like pw-top and pw-profiler. they're the ones doing the scooping, the module is just holding the bowl. 🍓

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🦋 MODULE NAME 🦋

libpipewire-module-profiler

that's the exact string, no cap. use it verbatim when you're adding it to a config. 💖

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✨ MODULE OPTIONS ✨

one option, we keep it cute and minimal:

• profile.interval.ms — this one lets you skip gathering profiling information on every single processing cycle. it's a whole trade-off vibe: you're swapping CPU usage against profiling accuracy. the default is 0. 🔥

ngl, 0 means "don't skip anything," which is accurate but thirsty for CPU. if your machine's fan starts going full main character, that's why. 😭

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💜 CONFIG OVERRIDE 💜

you can override the module arguments by adding a module.profiler.args config section. it lives in a drop-in file like this:

# ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/my-profiler-args.conf

module.profiler.args = {
    #profile.interval.ms = 10
}

told you it was just the one option. lowkey freeing. 🧚

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🌈 EXAMPLE CONFIGURATION 🌈

usually this module gets added to the config file of the main pipewire daemon, like so:

context.modules = [
{ name = libpipewire-module-profiler
  args = {
      #profile.interval.ms = 0
  }
}
]

slap that in, restart your daemon, and boom — profiler interface: unlocked. 👑

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• pw-top — a tool to display realtime profiler data 👑
• pw-profiler — a tool to collect and render profiler data 🦋

iykyk, those two are your besties once the module's loaded.

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okay so that's literally the whole page, no filler, periodt. this came to you from PipeWire version 1.6.11 (the Miscellaneous Information Manual edition, page libpipew...-profiler(7), name truncated exactly the way the original had it, don't come for me 💀). go profile something iconic, bestie. 💖✨🌈💅