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1 # Introduction
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3 V8's CPU & Heap profilers are trivial to use from V8's shells (see V8Profiler), but it may appear confusing how to use them with Chromium. This page should help you with it.
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5 # Instructions
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7 ## Why using V8's profilers with Chromium is different from using them with V8 s hells?
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9 Chromium is a complex application, unlike V8 shells. Below is the list of Chromi um features that affect profiler usage:
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11 * each renderer is a separate process (OK, not actually each, but let's omit t his detail), so they can't share the same log file;
12 * sandbox built around renderer process prevents it from writing to a disk;
13 * Developer Tools configure profilers for their own purposes;
14 * V8's logging code contains some optimizations to simplify logging state chec ks.
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16 ## So, how to run Chromium to get a CPU profile?
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18 Here is how to run Chromium in order to get a CPU profile from the start of the process:
19 ```
20 ./Chromium --no-sandbox --js-flags="--logfile=%t.log --prof"
21 ```
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23 Please note that you wouldn't see profiles in Developer Tools, because all the d ata is being logged to a file, not to Developer Tools.
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25 ### Flags description
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27 * **--no-sandbox** - turns off the renderer sandbox, obviously must have;
28 * **--js-flags** - this is the containers for flags passed to V8:
29 * **--logfile=%t.log** - specifies a name pattern for log files; **%t** gets expanded into current time in milliseconds, so each process gets its own log fi le; you can use prefixes and suffixes if you want, like this: **prefix-%t-suffix .log**;
30 * **--prof** - tells V8 to write statistical profiling information into the log file.
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32 ## Notes
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34 Under Windows, be sure to turn on .MAP file creation for **chrome.dll**, but not for **chrome.exe**.
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