Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:23:27 +0100 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf tools: remove pid option from stat |
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 16:37 +0800, Liming Wang wrote: > > pid option is useless for stat, so remove it. > > Hmm, it shouldn't be.. and instead of removing it I would suggesting fixing > this.
Yes. For exampe something like:
perf stat --repeat 10 --pid $(pidof firefox) sleep 1
Should show firefox's resource usage sampled over 10 seconds.
If this doesnt work it should be fixed. Plus i suspect we should allow:
perf stat --pid $(pidof firefox)
to run until Ctrl-C - like perf record allows.
Ingo
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