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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS>Hello there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS>I‘d like to draw your attention to two feature requests / patches that I‘ve subbmitted:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue9609">http://bugs.python.org/issue9609</a><span lang=IS><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS><a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue9622">http://bugs.python.org/issue9622</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS>These patches are the result of work that we have done in profiling Stackless Python server applications at runtime, but they apply just as well to C Python.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS>The first patch makes _lsprof, the engine behind cProfile, multi-stack aware. This allows the same cProfiler.Profile() instance to be active on multiple python threads and still meaningful information is gathered. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS>The second patch allows to set the trace/profile function in python <u>globally</u>, so that all threads are affected. This is essential if you want to take a profililng snapshot of a running application.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS>We now use this extensively, to monitor the live behaviour of our EVE game servers. A HTTP backend server is used to control the profiler (profile.enable(), profile disable() at runtime) and explore its output.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS>I haven‘t seen any feadback on these submissions and would appreciate some.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IS>Kristján<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>