gprof

Install required packages according to INSTALL and README.

$ wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/libunwind/libunwind-1.1.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf libunwind-1.1.tar.bz2 
$ cd libunwind-1.1
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo yum install graphviz

Clone the rep and install it.

$ git clone https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools
$ cd gperftools
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

If libunwind not installed correctly, can use: ./configure –enable-frame-pointers to use the builtin unwind. And make applications with -fno-omit-frame-pointer.

Sample application.

https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/README

$ g++ -Wall -fno-omit-frame-pointer -lprofiler x.cc -o x
$ rm -rf /tmp/x.out
$ CPUPROFILE=/tmp/x.out ./x
$ pprof --gv ./x /tmp/x.out

Go version of the perf tool: pprof.

https://github.com/google/pprof