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 fgprof is designed for analyzing applications with mixed I/O and CPU workloads. This kind of profiling is also known as wall-clock profiling.
 
+⚠️ fgprof can cause significant STW latencies in applications with a lot of goroutines (> 1-10k). Be careful with it in production.
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 ## Quick Start
 
 If this is the first time you hear about fgprof, you should start by reading about [The Problem](#the-problem) & [How it Works](#how-it-works).