Pause Collection from Command Line
Intel® VTune™
offers different ways to pause the collection process, to resume a paused collection, or to stop a running collect process from the command line.
Profiler
Start collection in the paused mode, and then automatically resume collection
To start data collection in the paused mode, use the
action option as follows:
vtune
analysis_type
> -start-paused [--] <target
>Resume a paused collection
There are two ways to resume a paused collection.
- To resume collection automatically after a specified amount of time, use theresume-afteroption.-collect <vtuneanalysis_type> -start-paused -resume-after=<value> [--] <target>where
- <is the type of analysis to runanalysis_type>
- <is the time of delay in secondsvalue>
- <is the target to analyzetarget>
- To resume collection manually, use thecommandaction with theresumeargument.-command resumevtune
Examples
This example starts the Hotspots analysis of the sample Linux* application in the paused mode, and then resumes collection after a 50 second pause.
vtune -collect hotspots -start-paused -resume-after=50 -- /home/test/sample
This example starts the Hotspots analysis of the
sample
Windows* application in the paused mode.
vtune -collect hotspots -start-paused -- C:\test\sample.exe