gprof¶

There are multiple profilers available on UPPMAX. This page describes gprof.

gprof is the GNU profiler, provided with the GNU compiler package.

In order to use gprof do the following:

Load a recent gcc module and a recent binutils module:

module load gcc
module load binutils

Compile your program with the -pg -g flags added

gcc -O0 -pg -g your-program.c -o your-program

run it:

./your-program

then do:

gprof your-program gmon.out > output-file