[users at bb.net] Performance issues in 2.10

Yngve N. Pettersen yngve at vivaldi.com
Wed Jan 13 10:46:25 UTC 2021


> I insist on the buildbot profiler. What I was saying before is that you
> need to hit the record button before the problem appears, and put a large
> enough record time to be sure to catch a spike.
> Then, you will be able to zoom to the cpu spike and catch the issue
> precisely.
>
> If the spike is in the order of minutes like you said, you can configure  
> it
> like this and get enough samples to get enough evidence to where the code
> is actually spending time:
>
> ProfilerService(frequency=500, gatherperiod=60 * 60, mode='virtual',
> basepath=None, wantBuilds=100

I tried configuring this with the settings dropdown in the WebGUI plugin,  
but AFAICT it is not working, it only gathers info for 30 seconds.

I guess I must be holding it incorrectly.

> This will record for one hour, and mitigate the memory used if you worry
> about it.

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Sincerely,
Yngve N. Pettersen
Vivaldi Technologies AS


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