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Bazaar has some built-in support for collecting and saving profiling
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information. In the simpliest case, the ``--lsprof`` option can be used as
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information. In the simpliest case, the --lsprof option can be used as
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This will dump the profiling information to stdout before exiting.
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Alternatively, the ``--lsprof-file`` option can be used to specify a filename
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Alternatively, the --lsprof-file option can be used to specify a filename
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to save the profiling data into to. By default, profiling data saved to a
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file is a pickled Python object making it possible to reload the data and
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do with it what you will. For convenience though:
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* if the filename ends in ``.txt``, it will be dumped in a text format.
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* if the filename either starts with ``callgrind.out`` or ends with
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``.callgrind``, it will be converted to a format loadable by the
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KCacheGrind visualization tool.
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Note that KCacheGrind's Open Dialog has a default filter than only shows
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files starting with ``callgrind.out`` so the longer filename is usually
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preferable. Here is an example of how to use the ``--lsprof-file`` option
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in combination with KCacheGrind to visualize what the ``status`` command
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bzr --lsprof-file callgrind.out.st001 status
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kcachegrind callgrind.out.st001 &
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.. Note:: bzr also has a ``--profile`` option that uses the hotshot profiler
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* if the filename ends in ".txt", it will be dumped in a text format.
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* if the filename ends in ".callgrind", it will be converted to a format
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loadable by the KCacheGrind visualization tool.
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Here is an example of how to use the --lsprof-file option in combination
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with KCacheGrind to visualize what the "status" command is doing::
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bzr --lsprof-file status001.callgrind status
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kcachegrind status001.callgrind &
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instead of the lsprof profiler. The hotshot profiler can be useful
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though the lsprof one is generally recommended. See
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http://docs.python.org/lib/node795.html.
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Note that to use ``--lsprof`` you must install the lsprof module, which you
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svn co http://codespeak.net/svn/user/arigo/hack/misc/lsprof
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Bazaar can log when locks are taken or released, which can help in
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identifying unnecessary lock traffic. This is activated by the ``-Dlock``
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This writes messages into ``~/.bzr.log``.
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At present this only logs actions relating to the on-disk lockdir. It
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doesn't describe actions on in-memory lock counters, or OS locks (which
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are used for dirstate.)
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Profiling HPSS Requests
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When trying to improve network performance, it is often useful to know
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what requests are being made, and how long they are taking. The ``-Dhpss``
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global option will enable logging smart server requests, including the
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time spent in each request.