Profiling zkvms with ethrex-replay

Getting started

Before reading this document please take a look the general documentation for ethrex-replay

Dependencies

For SP1

The easiest way is to use cargo but other options are listed in the samply repo

cargo install --locked samply

For risc0

Install go by following the instructions from go install page

Generate a profile

For SP1

Profile a L1 block:

Required: RPC_URL. Optionally: BLOCK_NUMBER, NETWORK.

make profile-sp1

Profile a L2 batch:

Required: RPC_URL, BATCH_NUMBER, NETWORK.

make profile-batch-sp1

Open samply profile

samply load output.json

Then visit http://localhost:8000/ on your browser

For risc0

Profile a L1 block:

Required: RPC_URL. Optionally: BLOCK_NUMBER, NETWORK.

make profile-risc0

Profile a L2 batch:

Required: RPC_URL, BATCH_NUMBER, NETWORK.

make profile-batch-risc0

Open pprof profile

go tool pprof -http=127.0.0.1:8000 profile.pb

Then visit http://localhost:8000/ on your browser