Extracting results from a large hotshot profile

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Brian Cole wrote:
...

>I did a hotshot profile. To make this profile took
>about a day. However, I've been trying to extract results from the
>profile for the past two days. It's eating up all the memory (2G
>memory) on the machine and is slowing sucking up the swap space
>(another 2G).
>
>I'm hesitant to kill it for I might get results out of it some day
>(even if I may have to bequeath them to my grand-children), but is
>there a better way to do this?
>  
>
...

>The profile is 355 MB large. Is there anything I can do to extract that data?
>  
>
You might want to try my RunSnakeRun utility:

    http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/runsnakerun/

It's designed to load large hotspot runs.  I've never had a 355 MB one, 
but I regularly load 140+MB ones on a desktop 1GB machine.  It does an 
incremental load, so you start to see results as soon as it starts 
running and continues loading the data-set in the background (it can 
take quite a while for the full data-set to load, but I don't *think* it 
should run out of RAM).

In case you don't want the GUI, the package includes the core 
hotshotreader module that actually does the incremental loading, you 
could use that to produce a view by writing code to display the results 
statically.

HTH,
Mike

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