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pw-profiler — Profile a local or remote instance. More information: <https://docs.pipewire.org/page_man_pw-profile

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Problem

How to use the pw-profiler command: Profile a local or remote instance. More information: <https://docs.pipewire.org/page_man_pw-profiler_1.html>.

Solution

pw-profiler — Profile a local or remote instance. More information: <https://docs.pipewire.org/page_man_pw-profiler_1.html>.

Profile the default instance, logging to profile.log (gnuplot files and a HTML file for result visualizing are also generated):

pw-profiler

Change the log output file:

pw-profiler {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/file.log}}

Profile a remote instance:

pw-profiler {{[-r|--remote]}} {{remote_name}}

Display help:

pw-profiler {{[-h|--help]}}

Code Snippets

Profile the default instance, logging to `profile.log` (`gnuplot` files and a HTML file for result visualizing are also generated)

pw-profiler

Change the log output file

pw-profiler {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/file.log}}

Profile a remote instance

pw-profiler {{[-r|--remote]}} {{remote_name}}

Display help

pw-profiler {{[-h|--help]}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/pw-profiler

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