Re: [PATCH 24/25] perf tools: Add multi file '-M' option for recordcommand

[Jiri Olsa]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 10:52:46AM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 01/09/13 13:36, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > split event data into multiple files based on the file
> > size or time delta specified as an argument to the option.
> > 
> > Adding multi file '-M' option for record command to store
> > output perf.data into multiple files based on the size
> > threshold.
> > 
> > The threshold is specified either as size (B/K/M/G) or time
> > (s/m/h) by appending the size with appropriate unit, like:
> >   -M 5M for 5 megabytes threshold
> >   -M 1h for 1 hour threshold
> > The generated name for each data file is appended with sequential
> > number (prepended by 5 zeros).For default output file name it
> > will be:
> >   perf.data-00000
> >   perf.data-00001
> >   perf.data-00002
> >   ...
> > 
> > Also watermark/wakeup_watermark is set accordingly to get
> > wake ups more often so we could get close enough to the
> > file size promise.
> > 
> > Example:
> >   $ perf record -M 5M yes > /dev/null
> >   ^C[ perf record: Woken up 228 times to write data ]
> >   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 20.246 MB perf.data-[0-4](~884542 samples) ]
> >   yes: Interrupt
> >   $ ls -l perf.data-0*
> >   -rw------- 1 jolsa jolsa 5289856 Aug 16 16:07 perf.data-00000
> >   -rw------- 1 jolsa jolsa 5296008 Aug 16 16:08 perf.data-00001
> >   -rw------- 1 jolsa jolsa 5344968 Aug 16 16:09 perf.data-00002
> >   -rw------- 1 jolsa jolsa 5309144 Aug 16 16:09 perf.data-00003
> >   -rw------- 1 jolsa jolsa 2358268 Aug 16 16:09 perf.data-00004
> 
> Did you consider doing this with "perf inject" instead of "perf record"?
> That way you could get the split exactly right, and you could split the same
> file different ways.

right, this could be added into inject command as well

jirka
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