On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:37 PM, riccardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul, > > On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 08:18 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> tomeu wrote: >> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:05 PM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > > Has anyone got an idea of how to measure the heap by usage? >> > >> > Not from outside python, but from inside we are using heapy: >> > >> > http://guppy-pe.sourceforge.net/ >> >> i started down that path yesterday afternoon, and realized that it >> wasn't clear to me how i needed to invoke it. it seems to want >> to be imported before you start the rest of your program, which >> sort of forces you into interactive mode. is that your understanding? >> i had been hoping to be able to "attach" to the sugar shell process, >> in the way one might do with gdb. perhaps that's not possible. >> > > There is kick-start tutorial on how to use heapy's remote monitor at the > 56th page of http://guppy-pe.sourceforge.net/heapy-thesis.pdf > > For the shell I use to put `import guppy.heapy.RM' before any other > import statement in main.py.
Another pointer: http://guppy-pe.sourceforge.net/heapy_Use.html#heapykinds.Use.monitor Other ways of using guppy are logging out periodically the heap with gobject.timeout_add or patching keyhandler.py to print the heap (or a diff of it) when a key combination is pressed. Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
