Subject: Re: [RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list (profiling gitweb)

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:52:08 +0200

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
> On Sep 25, 2008, at 3:30, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > * Optional information about load stats
> >
> >  Add an option to display information about how much time it took to  
> > generate page, how many git commands were called, and possibly other  
> > metric; if page was cached, write when it was generated, and how  
> > much time till timeout.  This probably would require additional perl  
> > modules, and it should be conditional on those modules.
> 
> Before spending too much time on this, be sure to have a look a  
> Devel::NYTProf.
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/~timb/Devel-NYTProf-2.03/lib/Devel/NYTProf.pm
> 
> http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/07/15/nytprof-v2-a-major-advance-in-perl-profilers/

Thank you very much for the pointers.

However I'm not sure how much help would that be, as according to J.H.
(kernel.org admin) and Petr Baudis (repo.or.cz admin), gitweb
performance in real life settings is bound by I/O, not by CPU usage.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland