Sometimes it is useful to save samples at a specific time. For
example, when profiling an executable, it may be useful to gather
different samples based on different input data sets. If the number
of events to be monitored exceeds the number of counters available
for the processor, multiple runs of OProfile can be used to collect
data, saving the sample data to different files each time.
To save the current set of sample files, execute the following
command, replacing <name> with
a unique descriptive name for the current session.
The directory /var/lib/oprofile/samples/name/ is created and the current sample
files are copied to it.
