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--dump
Force a flush of the collected profiling data to the daemon.
--stop
Stop data collection (this separate step is not possible with 2.2 or 2.4 kernels).
--shutdown
Stop data collection and kill the daemon.
--reset
Clears out data from current session, but leaves saved sessions.
--save=session_name
Save data from current session to session_name.
--deinit
Shuts down daemon. Unload the OProfile module and oprofilefs.
--list-events
List event types and unit masks.
--help
Generate usage messages.
There are a number of possible settings, of which, only --vmlinux (or --no-vmlinux) is required. These
settings are stored in ~/.oprofile/daemonrc.
--buffer-size=num
Number of samples in kernel buffer. When using a 2.6 kernel buffer watershed need to be
tweaked when changing this value.
--buffer-watershed=num
Set kernel buffer watershed to num samples (2.6 only). When it'll remain only buffer-size buffer-watershed free entry in the kernel buffer data will be flushed to daemon, most usefull
value are in the range [0.25 - 0.5] * buffer-size.
--cpu-buffer-size=num