Because you are at it, could you tellme if clock number is a cumulative count? ( there is no info about it in man page ;) ) On Sun 22 June 2003 22:26, Raghu R. Arur wrote: > check out man readprofile(1)... it has the needed info.. > > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Daniele Bellucci wrote: > > Hi, > > can any one tell "explain" the output of readprofile? > > > > taking as example the folowing ordered output: > > > > 15 handle_IRQ_event 0.1339 > > 11 __generic_copy_to_user 0.1146 > > 6 do_softirq 0.0268 > > > > what does the number in the first row means? > > what is 15? and it's related 0.1339? > > > > is 15 a jiffies counter? > > > > > > Daniele. > > > > > > PGP PKEY > > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=belch76@libero.it&op=index > > ICQ# 104896040 > > Netphone/Fax 178.605.7063 > > Homepage http://web.tiscali.it/bellucda > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Daniele. PGP PKEY http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=belch76@libero.it&op=index ICQ# 104896040 Netphone/Fax 178.605.7063 Homepage http://web.tiscali.it/bellucda -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/