Command line parameters

There are several command line parameters to enable/disable features of the profiler.
Parameters are case-sensitive.

• -profilerAdapter This lets you choose which "Adapter" aka Frontend you want to use. It's set to Tracy by default which is the most feature rich and performant interface that most people will want to use so you shouldn't need to touch this parameter.
  Example: -profilerAdapter Tracy
  
  Possible values:
  

  • Chrome (Chrome Webbrowsers about::tracing page)
    • Chrome Adapter has a special -profilerOutput parameter that takes the path to a json file where the profiler will write its data into.
  • Tracy The Tracy frontend, this is the default.
  • Brofiler The Brofiler interface of the previous iteration of the Profiler, Needs seperate Brofiler GUI binary that won't be provided with newer releases, you should probably not use this. This Adapter is no longer supported.
  • Arma Only works with the profiling binary of Arma, this is from the first iteration of the Profiler and it opens the Arma Internal profiling display once it captured something and you need to paste a string that was copied to your clipboard. This Adapter is no longer supported.

• -profilerEnableInstruction Enables Instruction Level profiling, displaying every script instruction and every executed script command. This consumes a lot of bandwidth and has a relatively heavy performance impact. Only works if SQF-Assembly addon is available (which is not the case on Linux builds yet).

• -profilerEnableEngine Enables Engine profiling which only works with the Arma profiling binary. This generates a LOT of data, there are sub-parameters to enable some things which are disabled by default to reduce bandwidth requirements.

  • -profilerEngineThreads Also displays non main-thread zones, these are usually not interesting and eat bandwith so they are default disabled.
  • -profilerEngineDoFile Enables zones in the "file" category. There are a lot of file events and most of them are not interesting.
  • -profilerEngineDoMem Enables zones in the "memory" category. These are memory alloc/realloc/dealloc and such. Usually not interesting.

• -profilerNoPaths Omits paths to script files, thus reducing required bandwidth and memory.

• -profilerNoInstrumentation Disables automatic instrumentation of every compiled script.

• -profilerEnableFAlloc Enables plotting of script type allocation counts, can be used to find memory "leaks".

• -profilerEnableNetwork Enables network profiling