[Yum-devel] Nightly Performance Runs?

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 11:01 -0500, James Bowes wrote:
> Hi Gang:
> 
> I think Terje has shown us that profiling yum is easy enough, and has 
> some pretty useful output.
> 
> Given that yum's performance is a frequent topic on this and other 
> mailing lists, maybe its time we set up some infrastructure to regularly 
> checkout the source code, run it through some typical operations, and 
> then graph the results over time?
> 
> I'm thinking we could do something like have a chroot (or maybe even a 
> VIRTUAL APPLIANCE) that the profiled yum operates in, against a local 
> set of repos.
> 
> So, what would be a good set of packages to use for the repo, and what 
> commands should get run? In honor of Terje, 'yum install xpdf' has to be 
> one of them.
> 
> Output could be a graph per yum command, plotting date vs time to run 
> the operation, with each command running against a few repos of 
> different sizes.
> 
> I was thinking of just using print_stats() to get profiling output, then 
> messing with that to draw some graphs, unless the kgrind style output 
> can be manipulated without running X.
> 
> What do people think?
> 

I think that'd be great but I don't really have a machine I could do
this on easily. Anyone want to volunteer to set this up? I'll be glad to
give them access if they want to push graphs up of this information to
the yum websites.

Thanks,
-sv