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From: Sam Saffron <sam.saffron@gmail.com>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: mwrap-public@80x24.org
Subject: Re: Add enable/disable methods
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 19:49:49 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAtdryNmPFAEDhf9ctEiCsGioX50h9JzOn4CusU76th+Oj_7vw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191010084108.ai6glpnm3x4voru7@dcvr>

> Would still have to pay the extra size + tracking overhead
> even in no-op mode; since post-enable free() can operate on
> pre-enable malloc() results.

Oh I forgot about that, how about allowing it to start in 'disabled
mode' via env and then only allowing a `Mwrap.enable` once. (with no
.disable method)

That helps a lot with the profiling of unicorn workers cause the
master and multiple workers can be left in "almost zero impact" mode
and you can simply nuke the worker you were profiling once done.

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 7:41 PM Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
>
> Sam Saffron <sam.saffron@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > In our use case we would like to profile one of N unicorn workers
> > after a certain timeframe.
> >
> > Would you be open to adding
> >
> > `Mwrap.enable` : start profiling memory allocations
> > `Mwrap.disable` : disable all profiling of memory allocations, making
> > them as close as possible to a no-op.
> >
> > and an env var for starting disabled
> >
> > `MWRAP_OPTIONS=disabled`
>
> Would still have to pay the extra size + tracking overhead
> even in no-op mode; since post-enable free() can operate on
> pre-enable malloc() results.
>
> >
> > An additional convenience method here for the entire workflow would be:
> >
> > `mwrap so_path` that returns the path to the module that needs
> > preloading, this makes it slightly easier to configure production
> > environments.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Should be doable.  Got a bunch of other stuff coming up into the
> weekend; but should be able to find some time for it in a week
> or two.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-10-10  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-08 22:11 Add enable/disable methods Sam Saffron
2019-10-10  8:41 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-10  8:49   ` Sam Saffron [this message]

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