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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Milian Wolff <mail@milianw.de>
Cc: linux-perf-users <linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Size of perf data files
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:48:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871topit6s.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1601237.BEhNSa8l6d@milian-kdab2> (Milian Wolff's message of "Wed, 26 Nov 2014 13:47:41 +0100")

Milian Wolff <mail@milianw.de> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> I wonder whether there is a way to reduce the size of perf data files. Esp. 
> when I collect call graph information via Dwarf on user space applications, I 
> easily end up with multiple gigabytes of data in just a few seconds.

Use a fixed period and reduce the period or so.

-c 10000000

Don't use dwarf backtracing.

On new enough perf you can disable time stamps --no-time.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-26 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-26 12:47 Size of perf data files Milian Wolff
2014-11-26 16:06 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-11-26 18:11   ` Milian Wolff
2014-11-27  0:56     ` Namhyung Kim
2014-11-27 13:19       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-11-28  6:18         ` Namhyung Kim
2014-11-26 20:48 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-01-06  3:21 Yale Zhang
2015-01-06  5:39 ` Andi Kleen
2015-01-06 21:02   ` Yale Zhang
2015-01-06 21:29     ` Andi Kleen
2015-01-09  2:06     ` Frank Ch. Eigler

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