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The KCachegrind Handbook

Josef Weidendorfer

Federico Zenith

Revision 0.5.1 (2009-10-07)

Copyright © 2002-2004 Josef Weidendorfer

Copyright © 2009 Federico Zenith

KCachegrind is a profile data visualization tool, written using the KDE environment.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Profiling
Profiling Methods
Profiling Tools
Visualization
2. Using KCachegrind
Generate Data to Visualize
Callgrind
OProfile
User Interface Basics
3. Basic Concepts
The Data Model for Profile Data
Cost Entities
Event Types
Visualization State
Parts of the GUI
Sidedocks
View Area
Areas of a Tab
Synchronized View with Selected Entity in a Tab
Synchronization between Tabs
Layouts
Sidedocks
Flat Profile
Parts Overview
Call Stack
Views
Event Type
Call Lists
Maps
Call Graph
Annotations
4. Command Reference
The main KCachegrind window
The File Menu
5. Questions and Answers
Glossary
6. Credits and License
A. Installation
How to obtain KCachegrind
Requirements
Compilation and Installation
Configuration