http://sdm.openacs.org/wp/display/140/ has a good presentation on a
different approach to profiling. (I just happen to have the printout
next to my keyboard :)

Regards,
Alfred Werner

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Eric Larkin wrote:

> We are using AOLserver (3.4.2 with a ported version of the ACS encoding
> patches) in our production environment, and have reached the point where we
> would like to profile our Tcl code to find procs that could be optimized or
> rewritten.  We're particularly interested in a report that looks something
> like this:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Procedure                       Calls           Real Time       CPU Time
> --------------------------------------------------------
> some_proc                       2               88982           6904
> another_proc            2               39392           3202
> yet_another_proc                2               50329           2032
>
> We've identified nsprofile (http://acs-misc.sourceforge.net/nsprofile.html)
> as a module which would provide this functionality, but I'm a little worried
> by the documentation, which lists as a pending task: "limiting the number of
> profile data kept. Right now it's unlimited so eventually we'll eat all the
> memory available".
>
> We also have some pages that seem to have excessively large memory usage in
> production, so we are also interested in monitoring and/or logging the
> amount of memory used by each http request and/or proc execution.  However,
> we haven't found any tools to do so.
>
> Does anyone have experience using nsprofile in a production environment?
> Are there other tools (or other ways of solving the same problem) that we
> should consider?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Eric Larkin
> Chief Technology Officer
> Arena Solutions, Inc.  (formerly bom.com)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> --
> AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/
> To Remove yourself from this list: http://www.aolserver.com/listserv.html
> List information and options: http://listserv.aol.com/
>


--
AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/
To Remove yourself from this list: http://www.aolserver.com/listserv.html
List information and options: http://listserv.aol.com/

Reply via email to