Does cProfile include IO wait time?
Gabriel Genellina
gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar
Mon Jul 6 01:58:59 EDT 2009
En Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:03:38 -0300, Matthew Wilson <matt at tplus1.com>
escribió:
> I expected to see a bunch of my IO file-reading code in there, but I
> don't. So
> this makes me think that the profiler uses CPU time, not
> clock-on-the-wall time.
> I'm not an expert on python profiling, and the docs seem sparse. Can I
> rule out IO as the bottleneck here? How do I see the IO consequences?
I don't know either - but it's easy to check.
Write a program that just reads a lot from /dev/zero, and look at its
profile. You should be able to tell whether I/O time is included or not.
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Gabriel Genellina
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