target-pid
target-pid
Attach Survey or Trip Counts &
FLOP collection to a running process specified by the process ID.
GUI Equivalent
Syntax
--target-pid
=
<integer>
Arguments
<integer>
is a process ID.
Default
No default argument
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