<div dir="ltr">I believe that timeout sends a kill signal to the process in question. I imagine that the process is killed before the profiling information is written and so you get an empty file. When you close the program with alt-F4, the program gets a chance to shut down cleanly and writes on the profiling information (.prof)<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Ben Rogalski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bwrogalski@gmail.com" target="_blank">bwrogalski@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I would like to generate a time and allocation profiling report after running my program for exactly 60 seconds (on Ubuntu Linux).<br><br></div>I compiled with the following flags:<br><br>-rtsopts -auto-all -caf-all -fforce-recomp<br><br></div>I then ran the program:<br><br></div><div>The program stops after 60 seconds, but the .prof file is empty.<br><br></div><div>When I run the program without using timeout, and close it manually (Alt F4, it is a graphical program), the .prof file contains the information I would expect.<br></div></div>
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