Intel® Advisor User Guide

User Guide

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target-pid

Attach Survey or Trip Counts & FLOP collection to a running process specified by the process ID.
GUI Equivalent
Project Properties
Analysis Target
[Analysis Type]
Attach to Process
PID

Syntax

--target-pid
=
<integer>
Arguments
<integer>
 is a process ID.
Default
No default argument
Actions Modified
collect
=survey - with call stacks disabled (default)
collect
=tripcounts - with call stacks disabled (default)
Usage
The usage scenario is similar to starting a target application with collection paused, except you can attach to an already running process.
Usage can decrease collection overhead.
Use the
command
 action with the arguments shown below to:
  • detach - the process continues running but analysis data collection stops.
  • stop - kill the process, which also stops analysis data collection.
Example
Attach Survey collection to the running process with the process ID 5. 
$ advisor --collect=survey --target-pid=5 --project-dir=./advi_results -- ./myApplication

Product and Performance Information

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Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.