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| author | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> | 2020-08-19 01:49:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> | 2020-08-19 04:24:25 +0200 |
| commit | 95cd53c1870dc4a76ddaf8c3e47f87a16369f05a (patch) | |
| tree | cd9fdfcd690e9233549059e0194c90db1046d413 /gnu | |
| parent | f9812690a91b22f95e147eecd7f4ec537d50756e (diff) | |
gnu: sysprof: Expand description.
* gnu/packages/gnome.scm (synopsis, description): Elongate.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/gnome.scm | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm index a71d4ab4f9..7ceab955e0 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm @@ -11262,10 +11262,14 @@ GObject introspection bindings.") ;; This home page is so woefully out of date as to be essentially useless. ;; (home-page "http://www.sysprof.com") (home-page "https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Sysprof") - (synopsis "System-wide performance profiler") - (description "Sysprof is a sampling profiler that uses a kernel module -to generate stacktraces which are then interpreted by the userspace program -@command{sysprof}.") + (synopsis "System-wide performance profiler for GNU/Linux") + (description + "Sysprof performs detailed, accurate, and fast CPU profiling of an entire +GNU/Linux system including the kernel and all user-space applications. This +helps find the function(s) in which a program spends most of its time. + +It uses the kernel's built-in @code{ptrace} feature and handles shared +libraries. Applications do not need to be recompiled--or even restarted.") (license license:gpl3+))) (define-public gnome-builder |