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Jörg Thalheim 794007cab7 add stack sampling profiler for flamegraphs
This is code is a bit rough in the sense that I have taken shortcuts to
quickly iterate.
This is not ready for merging yet, but I think it's already useful for
people that want to generate flamegraphs for things as large as NixOS.

Usage:

NIX_PROFILE_FILE=/tmp/nixos-trace nix eval -v --no-eval-cache
.#nixosConfigurations.turingmachine.config.system.build.toplevel

The result can be imported in tools that support folded stacks i.e.
https://www.speedscope.app/ or the original flamegraph script
(https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph)

The profiler records stack trace of the nix evaluation every 10ms (100Hz).
The resulting file is 1.9GB uncompressed and 5.4MB compressed with zstd.

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Nix

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Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation and first steps

Visit nix.dev for installation instructions and beginner tutorials.

Full reference documentation can be found in the Nix manual.

Building and developing

Follow instructions in the Nix reference manual to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.

Contributing

Check the contributing guide if you want to get involved with developing Nix.

Additional resources

Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his PhD thesis The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model, published 2006. Today, a world-wide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it.

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.