[Swift-devel] swift-plot-log in tutorial

[Ben Clifford]

It could be integrated into the runtime. But I think that is not very high 
priority - you can run the existing log processing code on a run in 
progress to get that kind of information, and there is already a fair 
amount of information available during a run.

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Michael Wilde wrote:

> Nice, sounds good. I need to start using this, and the status monitor as well.
> 
> I realize the plots are slow to produce with the current scripts
> (understandably, np) but conceptually these two things could be integrated?
> 
> How is my run progressing, both as a numeric status display and as an evolving
> plot, is something almost all users care about, especially for initial runs
> where the user is asking "is my running running correctly" and "is it running
> as fast as it should/could?"
> 
> On 4/13/09 10:23 AM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > I just did a swift hands on session with about 15 users who now have a few
> > days experience in building simple cluster/grid scale applications.
> > 
> > One of the things I did was have them run swift-plot-log on Swift runs, and
> > look at some of the graphics there.
> > 
> > I think this gave a very useful visual impression of what was going on
> > during runs, and so I think some incorporation of that into future Swift
> > tutorials would be useful.
> > 
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