[Swift-devel] Formatting kickstart records

[Ian Foster]

is this format in the "standard log format" that CEDPS defined? I would 
think it should be.

Michael Wilde wrote:
> I started a small perl script to format kickstart records.
>
> For now, for each kickstart output file on the cmd line it prints 
> one-liners of the form:
>
> Start=2007-09-09T00:24:43.161-05:00 duration=83.993 user=82.470 
> sys=1.360 machine=i686 host=tg-v050.uc.teragrid.org
>
> but its pretty generalizable.
>
> I did this to find the min, max and stats on run times, looking for 
> outliers that are holding up the workflow.
>
> If anyone has a similar/better tool please point it out, otherwise 
> I'll continue to enhance this. Suggestions for a better approach are 
> welcome.
>
> Pavel (summer student) did something like this in C a while back; I 
> thought that was added to vds/contrib at that time but I dont see it 
> in the latest VDS release.  Need to hunt it down.
>
> This perl script is very simple and easy, but rather slow on 1000 
> kickstart records (need to get timings; Im sure it can be improved, 
> possibly by grabbing multiple fields on each XPath call.
>
> - Mike
>
> $ cat ~/vds/kix
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w -I/home/wilde/vds
> #                  ^^^ How to best set the module path?
>
> # Print fields from a list of invocation record xml files
>
> use strict;
> use XML::XPath;
> use XML::XPath::XMLParser;
>
> while(@ARGV) {
>   print_irec(shift @ARGV);
> }
>
> sub print_irec
> {
>   my $irec = shift;
>   my $xp = XML::XPath->new(filename => $irec);
>
>   my $start = $xp->findvalue('/invocation/mainjob/@start');
>   my $utime = $xp->findvalue('/invocation/mainjob/usage/@utime');
>   my $stime = $xp->findvalue('/invocation/mainjob/usage/@stime');
>   my $duration = $xp->findvalue('/invocation/mainjob/@duration');
>   my $machine = $xp->findvalue('/invocation/uname/@machine');
>   my $host = $xp->findvalue('/invocation/@hostname');
>
>   print "Start=$start duration=$duration user=$utime sys=$stime 
> machine=$machine host=$host\n";
> }
>
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