diff --git a/scrapy/cmdline.py b/scrapy/cmdline.py
index 35050c13d..cb7bbd64d 100644
--- a/scrapy/cmdline.py
+++ b/scrapy/cmdline.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import pkg_resources
 
 import scrapy
 from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerProcess
-from scrapy.xlib import lsprofcalltree
 from scrapy.commands import ScrapyCommand
 from scrapy.exceptions import UsageError
 from scrapy.utils.misc import walk_modules
@@ -144,7 +143,7 @@ def execute(argv=None, settings=None):
     sys.exit(cmd.exitcode)
 
 def _run_command(cmd, args, opts):
-    if opts.profile or opts.lsprof:
+    if opts.profile:
         _run_command_profiled(cmd, args, opts)
     else:
         cmd.run(args, opts)
@@ -152,17 +151,11 @@ def _run_command(cmd, args, opts):
 def _run_command_profiled(cmd, args, opts):
     if opts.profile:
         sys.stderr.write("scrapy: writing cProfile stats to %r\n" % opts.profile)
-    if opts.lsprof:
-        sys.stderr.write("scrapy: writing lsprof stats to %r\n" % opts.lsprof)
     loc = locals()
     p = cProfile.Profile()
     p.runctx('cmd.run(args, opts)', globals(), loc)
     if opts.profile:
         p.dump_stats(opts.profile)
-    k = lsprofcalltree.KCacheGrind(p)
-    if opts.lsprof:
-        with open(opts.lsprof, 'w') as f:
-            k.output(f)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     execute()
diff --git a/scrapy/commands/__init__.py b/scrapy/commands/__init__.py
index 9ac013098..43b420821 100644
--- a/scrapy/commands/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/commands/__init__.py
@@ -65,8 +65,6 @@ class ScrapyCommand(object):
             help="disable logging completely")
         group.add_option("--profile", metavar="FILE", default=None,
             help="write python cProfile stats to FILE")
-        group.add_option("--lsprof", metavar="FILE", default=None,
-            help="write lsprof profiling stats to FILE")
         group.add_option("--pidfile", metavar="FILE",
             help="write process ID to FILE")
         group.add_option("-s", "--set", action="append", default=[], metavar="NAME=VALUE",
diff --git a/scrapy/xlib/lsprofcalltree.py b/scrapy/xlib/lsprofcalltree.py
deleted file mode 100644
index a604016cc..000000000
--- a/scrapy/xlib/lsprofcalltree.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,120 +0,0 @@
-# lsprofcalltree.py: lsprof output which is readable by kcachegrind
-# David Allouche
-# Jp Calderone & Itamar Shtull-Trauring
-# Johan Dahlin
-
-from __future__ import print_function
-import optparse
-import os
-import sys
-
-try:
-    import cProfile
-except ImportError:
-    raise SystemExit("This script requires cProfile from Python 2.5")
-
-def label(code):
-    if isinstance(code, str):
-        return ('~', 0, code)    # built-in functions ('~' sorts at the end)
-    else:
-        return '%s %s:%d' % (code.co_name,
-                             code.co_filename,
-                             code.co_firstlineno)
-
-class KCacheGrind(object):
-    def __init__(self, profiler):
-        self.data = profiler.getstats()
-        self.out_file = None
-
-    def output(self, out_file):
-        self.out_file = out_file
-        print('events: Ticks', file=out_file)
-        self._print_summary()
-        for entry in self.data:
-            self._entry(entry)
-
-    def _print_summary(self):
-        max_cost = 0
-        for entry in self.data:
-            totaltime = int(entry.totaltime * 1000)
-            max_cost = max(max_cost, totaltime)
-        print('summary: %d' % (max_cost,), file=self.out_file)
-
-    def _entry(self, entry):
-        out_file = self.out_file
-
-        code = entry.code
-        #print >> out_file, 'ob=%s' % (code.co_filename,)
-        if isinstance(code, str):
-            print('fi=~', file=out_file)
-        else:
-            print('fi=%s' % (code.co_filename,), file=out_file)
-        print('fn=%s' % (label(code),), file=out_file)
-
-        inlinetime = int(entry.inlinetime * 1000)
-        if isinstance(code, str):
-            print('0 ', inlinetime, file=out_file)
-        else:
-            print('%d %d' % (code.co_firstlineno, inlinetime), file=out_file)
-
-        # recursive calls are counted in entry.calls
-        if entry.calls:
-            calls = entry.calls
-        else:
-            calls = []
-
-        if isinstance(code, str):
-            lineno = 0
-        else:
-            lineno = code.co_firstlineno
-
-        for subentry in calls:
-            self._subentry(lineno, subentry)
-        print(file=out_file)
-
-    def _subentry(self, lineno, subentry):
-        out_file = self.out_file
-        code = subentry.code
-        #print >> out_file, 'cob=%s' % (code.co_filename,)
-        print('cfn=%s' % (label(code),), file=out_file)
-        if isinstance(code, str):
-            print('cfi=~', file=out_file)
-            print('calls=%d 0' % (subentry.callcount,), file=out_file)
-        else:
-            print('cfi=%s' % (code.co_filename,), file=out_file)
-            print('calls=%d %d' % (
-                subentry.callcount, code.co_firstlineno), file=out_file)
-
-        totaltime = int(subentry.totaltime * 1000)
-        print('%d %d' % (lineno, totaltime), file=out_file)
-
-def main(args):
-    usage = "%s [-o output_file_path] scriptfile [arg] ..."
-    parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=usage % sys.argv[0])
-    parser.allow_interspersed_args = False
-    parser.add_option('-o', '--outfile', dest="outfile",
-                      help="Save stats to <outfile>", default=None)
-
-    if not sys.argv[1:]:
-        parser.print_usage()
-        sys.exit(2)
-
-    options, args = parser.parse_args()
-
-    if not options.outfile:
-        options.outfile = '%s.log' % os.path.basename(args[0])
-
-    sys.argv[:] = args
-
-    prof = cProfile.Profile()
-    try:
-        try:
-            prof = prof.run('execfile(%r)' % (sys.argv[0],))
-        except SystemExit:
-            pass
-    finally:
-        kg = KCacheGrind(prof)
-        kg.output(file(options.outfile, 'w'))
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))