strategy

Specify which processes to analyze.

GUI Equivalent

Analysis Target window > Analyze child processes check box > Per-process Configuration

Syntax

-strategy <process_name1>:<profiling_mode>,<process_name2>:<profiling_mode>,...

Arguments

Argument	Description
`<process_name>`	The name of the process to which the strategy configuration applies. If `<process_name>` is empty, the strategy configuration applies by default to all processes for which a profiling strategy is not specified.
`<profiling_mode>`	The strategy for profiling the specified process. Possible values are:
Value	Description
`trace:trace`	Collect data on the process, and its child processes.
`notrace:trace`	Do not analyze the process, but collect data on its child processes.
`notrace:notrace`	Ignore the process, and its child processes, while collecting data.
`trace:notrace`	Analyze the process, but do not collect data on its child processes.

Default

:trace:trace: Analyze both parent and child processes.

Actions Modified

collect, collect-with

Description

Use the strategy action-option to specify which processes to analyze, and which to ignore.

This option is not applicable to hardware event-based analysis types.

Example

This example performs a Hotspots analysis where the strategy configuration limits data collection to the example process, and ignores its child processes.

$ amplxe-cl -collect hotspots -strategy :notrace:trace,example:trace:notrace /home/test/run_example.sh