Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:03:50 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Fr?d?ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
       Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] perf record: We should fork only if a program was
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> > Because we want this to work:
> > 
> > [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf record -a -f sleep 2
> > [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.243 MB perf.data (~10599 samples) ]
> > [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
> > 
> > See, no hands mother! I.e. it is system wide, but just for 2 seconds,
> > its clever, but I like it, and it always worked :-)
> 
> Ah, right.. yes, totally forgot about that.

I use the 'perf record -a -f sleep 1' trick all the time to capture a 
system-wide snippet of a particular workload.

	Ingo
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