[users at bb.net] buildbot CPU usage

Pierre Tardy tardyp at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 11:55:37 UTC 2016


I'll take a look.

Le mer. 10 août 2016 12:45, Francesco Di Mizio <francescodimizio at gmail.com>
a écrit :

> I am starting to think it may be due to my own custom scheduler. If I
> uploaded the code somewhere could anybody take a look? it's a 150 lines py
> script.
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Francesco Di Mizio <
> francescodimizio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for that Pierre. I have it on on production and the performances
>> do not degrade indeed.
>>
>> buildbot at e2123a50d1fb:~$ cat profile.txt
>> No samples recorded.
>>
>> I need to study statprof a bit now ;)
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Vasily <vassnlit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> One can also use Intel® VTune™, you know... :-)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vasily
>>> 09 авг. 2016 г. 23:56 пользователь "Pierre Tardy" <tardyp at gmail.com>
>>> написал:
>>>
>>>> You can add following snippet to your master.cfg. It looks statprof
>>>> does not work on osx, so I cannot test it to the end, but I know similar
>>>> did work on my prod
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> import statprof
>>>> from  twisted.application.internet import TimerService
>>>> from buildbot.util.service import BuildbotService
>>>> class BuildbotTimerService(TimerService, BuildbotService):
>>>>     name = "timer"
>>>>     def __init__(self):
>>>>         BuildbotService.__init__(self)
>>>>         TimerService.__init__(self, 10, self.dump_stats)
>>>>     def dump_stats(self):
>>>>         statprof.stop()
>>>>         with open("profile.txt", "w") as f:
>>>>             statprof.display(f)
>>>>         statprof.start()
>>>>
>>>> c['services'] = [ BuildbotTimerService() ]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Le mar. 9 août 2016 à 21:44, Francesco Di Mizio <
>>>> francescodimizio at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> Pierre,
>>>>>
>>>>> if you can enlighten on how you intend to use statprof, I will be
>>>>> happy to give it a try.
>>>>> This problem here is on top of my list right now as it's making my
>>>>> prod env unusable.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Pierre Tardy <tardyp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Please note that cprofile is very intrusive and will lead to about 3x
>>>>>> slower code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So I would not run that in prod. This is why I prefer statprof which
>>>>>> is using a non intrusive method to get the stats
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Le mar. 9 août 2016 19:15, Francesco Di Mizio <
>>>>>> francescodimizio at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On a side note I have managed to get twistd to dump a blob I can
>>>>>>> then load and analyze. Got to see if I can run this in production.
>>>>>>> If anybody is curious the following worked for me:
>>>>>>> twistd --savestats -n --profiler=cprofile  --profile=/crcdata/
>>>>>>> profile.stats -y ./buildbot.tac
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Francesco Di Mizio <
>>>>>>> francescodimizio at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Well that's expected to an extent - p4 poller is running 'p4
>>>>>>>> changes' every pollinterval seconds.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Anyway just as a test I've tried to disable the poller and still at
>>>>>>>> times I am seeing the CPU spiking up to above 100%. I believe I really need
>>>>>>>> to profile this somehow.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Also watch 'top' and see if poller processes are hogging resources.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
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