[Swift-devel] Swift Performance Data

[Ben Clifford]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Ioan Raicu wrote:

> the machine readable logs for graphing.  We (Yong and I) had some trouble in
> the past generating these graphs from the Swift logs as the logs did not
> always contain all the information we needed to draw the graph, or the parsing
> would fail, and we had to manually fix the problem in the logs and try again
> the parsing!

The log messages aren't fixed in stone so if there are small changes that 
would be useful for this, make them or bring them up on this list.


> Right, but kickstart logs are all in separate files, so to really make sense
> of them in a programatic way and to plot them on 1 graph, there needs to be an
> aggreting step that either just merges these files together in some orderly
> way, or it mights even usmmarize the data for easier graphing.  From my
> understanding of the kickstart records, I think its hard to generate overview
> graphs of an entire run due to the fact that they are kept in many files.

A commandline XSLT processor and a for-loop in bash might do it.

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