Hello there.

I‘d like to draw your attention to two feature requests / patches that I‘ve subbmitted:

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.

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.

The second patch allows to set the trace/profile function in python globally, so that all threads are affected. This is essential if you want to take a profililng snapshot of a running application.

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.

I haven‘t seen any feadback on these submissions and would appreciate some.

Cheers,

Kristján