Profiler

The profiler tool shows CPU usage for each process running in RouterOS. It helps to identify which process is using most of the CPU resources.
Watch our video about this feature.

[admin@MikroTik] > /tool/profile

On multi-core systems, the tool allows specifying per core CPU usage.

The "CPU" parameter allows specifying an integer number which represents a core or one of two predefined values all and total:

• total - this value is set to show the sum of all core usages.
• all - value is set to show CPU usages separately for every available core.

In the following example we will take a look at both predefined values:

[admin@MikroTik] > /tool/profile cpu=all 
NAME             CPU        USAGE       
ethernet         1          0%          
kvm              0          0%          
kvm              1          4.5%        
management       0          0%          
management       1          0.5%        
idle             0          100%        
idle             1          93%         
profiling        0          0%          
profiling        1          2%    

[admin@MikroTik] > /tool/profile cpu=total 
NAME             CPU        USAGE       
ethernet         all        0%          
console          all        0%          
kvm              all        2.7%        
management       all        0%          
idle             all        97.2%       
profiling        all        0%          
bridging         all        0%  

Classifiers

RouterOS processes are classified by type and the CPU usage for each type is displayed separately for ease of debugging.