diff --git a/paddle/fluid/operators/listen_and_serv_op.cc b/paddle/fluid/operators/listen_and_serv_op.cc
index 438b44b42aaf4c7e3ff05a5f7c52bbfd850e92c7..e14b148cc00f425e90b0b2256ab3462753a34f47 100644
--- a/paddle/fluid/operators/listen_and_serv_op.cc
+++ b/paddle/fluid/operators/listen_and_serv_op.cc
@@ -19,12 +19,17 @@ limitations under the License. */
 #include <thread>  // NOLINT
 #include <vector>
 
+#include "gflags/gflags.h"
+
 #include "paddle/fluid/operators/detail/macros.h"
 
 #include "paddle/fluid/operators/distributed/request_handler_impl.h"
 #include "paddle/fluid/operators/listen_and_serv_op.h"
 #include "paddle/fluid/platform/profiler.h"
 
+DEFINE_int32(listen_and_serv_profile_period, 0,
+             "the period of listen_and_serv to do profile");
+
 namespace paddle {
 namespace operators {
 
@@ -122,7 +127,18 @@ void ListenAndServOp::RunSyncLoop(
       std::shared_ptr<framework::ExecutorPrepareContext>(nullptr));
 
   rpc_service_->ResetBarrierCounter();
+
+  int32_t profile_step = 0;
   while (true) {
+    PADDLE_ENFORCE_LE(profile_step, FLAGS_listen_and_serv_profile_period,
+                      "profile_step should not be larger then "
+                      "FLAGS_listen_and_serv_profile_period");
+    if (FLAGS_listen_and_serv_profile_period > 0) {
+      if (profile_step == 0) {
+        auto pf_state = paddle::platform::ProfilerState::kCPU;
+        paddle::platform::EnableProfiler(pf_state);
+      }
+    }
     // Get from multiple trainers, we don't care about the order in which
     // the gradients arrives, just add suffix 0~n and merge the gradient.
     rpc_service_->SetCond(distributed::kRequestSend);
@@ -164,6 +180,15 @@ void ListenAndServOp::RunSyncLoop(
     // reset received sparse vars to avoid reuse it in the next mini-batch
     dynamic_cast<distributed::RequestSendHandler *>(request_send_handler_.get())
         ->ResetSparseVarRecorder();
+    if (FLAGS_listen_and_serv_profile_period > 0) {
+      if (profile_step == FLAGS_listen_and_serv_profile_period) {
+        paddle::platform::DisableProfiler(
+            paddle::platform::EventSortingKey::kTotal, "/dev/null");
+        profile_step = 0;
+      } else {
+        profile_step++;
+      }
+    }
   }  // while(true)
 }
 
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/__init__.py b/python/paddle/fluid/__init__.py
index d1d6dd75ee98411fcd7d444b18f9838064b774b0..956e3c43485b36aaeb2d366d6145edd3d4535122 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/__init__.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/__init__.py
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ def __bootstrap__():
     ]
     if core.is_compiled_with_dist():
         read_env_flags.append('rpc_deadline')
+        read_env_flags.append('listen_and_serv_profile_period')
 
     if core.is_compiled_with_cuda():
         read_env_flags += [