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Paddle/doc/fluid/howto/optimization/timeline_en.md

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how to use timeline tool to do profile

  1. Add with profiler.profiler(...) to the main training loop. After run, the code will generate a profile record file /tmp/profile. Warning: Please do not run too many batches when use profiler to record timeline information, for the profile record will grow with the batch number.

    with profiler.profiler('All', 'total', '/tmp/profile') as prof:
        for pass_id in range(pass_num):
            for batch_id, data in enumerate(train_reader()):
                exe.run(fluid.default_main_program(),
                        feed=feeder.feed(data),
                        fetch_list=[],
                        use_program_cache=True)
                ...
    
  2. Run python paddle/tools/timeline.py to process /tmp/profile, it will generate another file /tmp/timeline by default. You can change the path by cmd parameter, please take a look at timeline.py for details.

  3. Open chrome and visit chrome://tracing/, use load button to load the generated timeline file.

    chrome tracing

  4. The resulting timeline should be like:

    chrome timeline