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Friday December 19, 2008

Chime Python Category

I just added a Python category to Chime, in addition to the Ruby category added earlier.

list of Python displays in main Chime window

A PHP category is coming soon. These are all scripts from the DTraceToolkit. Chime has gotten pretty flexible in terms of supporting script options, so I was able to merge the py_cpudist.d and py_cputime.d scripts into py_calldist.d and py_calltime.d, which differ only in measuring on-CPU time instead of elapsed time.

dialog prompting for elapsed time or on-CPU time

dialog prompting for elapsed time or on-CPU time

The prompt defaults to elapsed time. Here's a trace of a Mercurial command:

py_calltime display

It shows time in two ways side-by-side: the entire time from entry to return including time spent in other functions, and time in the current stack frame excluding time spent calling other functions. Here are some other displays showing total bytes allocated alongside a malloc() size distribution, by function and by stack trace.

py_malloc display

The tagged stack traces are viewable by accessing a right-click popup menu on one or more selected rows.

selected stack traces side by side in the stack viewer

selected stack traces side by side in the stack viewer

So have fun tracing your Python apps! Chime is downloadable here.

( Dec 19 2008, 07:45:25 PM PST / Dec 19 2008, 07:45:25 PM PST ) Permalink
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