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RunProfileServer
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*First of all; we recommend that before you start profiling any language or
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framework you learn enough about it so that you feel comfortable with digging
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into it's internals. Without sufficient knowledge it will not only be (very)
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hard but your likely to make wrong assumptions (and fixes). As a rule of thumb,
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clean well written code will help you a lot more then overzealous
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micro-optimizations will.*
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*This document is work in progress. If you feel you can help with
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better/clearer or additional information about profiling Django please leave a
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comment.*
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Introduction
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------------
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*runprofileserver* starts Django's runserver command with hotshot/profiling
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tools enabled. It will save .prof files containing the profiling information
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into the --prof-path directory. Note that for each request made one profile
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data file is saved.
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Per default the profile-data-files are saved in /tmp use the --prof-path option
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to specify your own target directory. Saving the data in a meaningful directory
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structure helps to keep your profile data organized and /tmp uncluttered. (Yes
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this is probably a bug on windows and other systems where /tmp does not exist)
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To define profile filenames use --prof-file option. Default format
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is "{path}.{duration:06d}ms.{time}" (Python
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`Format Specification <http://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#formatspec>`_
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is used).
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Examples:
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* "{time}-{path}-{duration}ms" - to order profile-data-files by request time
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* "{duration:06d}ms.{path}.{time}" - to order by request duration
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gather_profile_stats.py
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-----------------------
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Django comes packed with a tool to aggregate these different prof files into
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one aggregated profile file. This tool is called *gather_profile_stats.py* and
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is located inside the *bin* directory of your Django distribution.
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KCacheGrind
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-----------
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Recent versions of *runprofileserver* have an option to save the profile data
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into a KCacheGrind compatible format. So you can use the excellent KCacheGrind
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tool for analyzing the profile data.
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Example::
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$ mkdir /tmp/my-profile-data
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$ ./manage.py runprofileserver --kcachegrind --prof-path=/tmp/my-profile-data
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Validating models...
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0 errors found
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Django version 1.0-post-release-SVN-SVN-unknown, using settings 'complete_project.settings'
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Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
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Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
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[13/Nov/2008 06:29:38] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 41107
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[13/Nov/2008 06:29:39] "GET /site_media/base.css?743 HTTP/1.1" 200 17227
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[13/Nov/2008 06:29:39] "GET /site_media/logo.png HTTP/1.1" 200 3474
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[13/Nov/2008 06:29:39] "GET /site_media/jquery.js HTTP/1.1" 200 31033
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[13/Nov/2008 06:29:39] "GET /site_media/heading.png HTTP/1.1" 200 247
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[13/Nov/2008 06:29:39] "GET /site_media/base.js HTTP/1.1" 200 751
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<ctrl-c>
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$ kcachegrind /tmp/my-profile-data/root.12574391.592.prof
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Here is a screenshot of how the above commands might look in KCacheGrind:
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http://trbs.net/media/misc/django-runprofileserver-kcachegrind-full.jpg
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Links
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* http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ProfilingDjango
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* http://www.rkblog.rk.edu.pl/w/p/django-profiling-hotshot-and-kcachegrind/
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* http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/bin/profiling/gather_profile_stats.py
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* http://www.oluyede.org/blog/2007/03/07/profiling-django/
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* http://simonwillison.net/2008/May/22/debugging/
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