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@@ -284,14 +284,16 @@ Small, ad-hoc changes/PRs to Helm which introduce user facing changes, which wou
 
 ### Profiling PRs
 
-If your contribution requires profiling to check memory and/or CPU usage, you can set `HELM_PPROF=cpu=/path/to/cpu.prof,mem=/path/to/mem.prof` environment variable to collect runtime profiling data for analysis. You can use Golang's [pprof](https://github.com/google/pprof/blob/main/doc/README.md) tool to inspect the results.
+If your contribution requires profiling to check memory and/or CPU usage, you can set `HELM_PPROF_CPU_PROFILE=/path/to/cpu.prof HELM_PPROF_MEM_PROFILE=/path/to/mem.prof helm show all bitnami/nginx` environment variable to collect runtime profiling data for analysis. You can use Golang's [pprof](https://github.com/google/pprof/blob/main/doc/README.md) tool to inspect the results.
 
 Example analysing collected profiling data
 ```
-HELM_PPROF=cpu=/path/to/cpu.prof,mem=/path/to/mem.prof helm show all bitnami/nginx
+HELM_PPROF_CPU_PROFILE=cpu.prof HELM_PPROF_MEM_PROFILE=mem.prof helm show all bitnami/nginx
 
 # Visualize graphs. You need to have installed graphviz package in your system
 go tool pprof -http=":8000" cpu.prof
+
+go tool pprof -http=":8001" mem.prof
 ```
 
 ## The Triager