4.3. Source/compile-time profilers
4.3.3. Eazel profiler (cprof)
4.3.5. High-resolution Profiler
This is unrelated to the other tool named
sprof.
GNU
sprof is packaged with the GNU C library
(it can often be found as part of the
4.3.7. Performance Counter Library
4.3.11. Erik Hendriks' performance counter package
This code provided virtualised access to the x86 performance counters in a
similar manner to
Section 4.3.2 for 2.2 kernels. It is no longer
maintained, and is listed here only for historical interest. You can find
the manual and the source
here.
bprof is a very old tool that provided instruction-level
profiling data via
setitimer(2). If you are lucky, you
will still be able to find a source RPM at
rpmfind.net,
but the code is merely of historical interest now.