How to Use Perf Performance Analysis Tool on Ubuntu 22.04

Perf is a simple but powerful performance monitoring tool for Linux based operating systems. It is used to trace or count both hardware and software events. It provides a number of subcommands and capable of statistical profiling of the entire system. It helps you to identified and solve performance related issues.

In this video I will show you how to install it

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Commands Used:
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade -y
apt install linux-tools-$(uname -r) linux-tools-generic -y
perf -v
perf --help
perf list sw
perf list stat
perf stat ls -ld /etc/
perf stat free -m
perf top -a
perf top -e cpu-clock
perf record df -h
perf report
perf bench mem all