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profil(2) -- execution time profile
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profil() controls profiling, by which the system maintains estimates of the amount of time the calling program spends executing at various places in its address space. The buff argument must point to an area of memory whose length (in bytes) is given by bufsiz. When profiling is on, the process's program counter (pc) is examined each clock tick (CLK_TCK times per second), offset is subtracted fro... |
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