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Simple profiling for Go
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Simple profiling for Go
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/mmcloughlin/profile
- Owner: mmcloughlin
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Created: 2021-04-30T06:22:46.000Z (about 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-02-09T19:34:46.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-02-21T22:36:11.838Z (4 months ago)
- Language: Go
- Homepage: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/mmcloughlin/profile
- Size: 43 KB
- Stars: 74
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# profile
[](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/mmcloughlin/profile)
Simple profiling for Go.
* Easy management of Go's built-in
[profiling](https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/pprof) and
[tracing](https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/trace)
* Based on the widely-used [`pkg/profile`](https://github.com/pkg/profile):
mostly-compatible API
* Supports generating multiple profiles at once
* Configurable with [idiomatic flags](#flags): `-cpuprofile`, `-memprofile`, ...
just like `go test`
* Configurable by [environment variable](#environment): key-value interface like
`GODEBUG`
## Install
```
go get github.com/mmcloughlin/profile
```
## Usage
Enabling profiling in your application is as simple as one line at the top of
your main function.
[embedmd]:# (internal/example/basic/main.go go /import/ /^}/)
```go
import "github.com/mmcloughlin/profile"
func main() {
defer profile.Start().Stop()
// ...
}
```
This will write a CPU profile to the current directory. Generate multiple
profiles by passing options to the `Start` function.
[embedmd]:# (internal/example/multi/main.go go /defer.*/)
```go
defer profile.Start(profile.CPUProfile, profile.MemProfile).Stop()
```
Profiles can also be configured by the user via [flags](#flags) or [environment
variable](#environment), as demonstrated in the examples below.
### Flags
The following example shows how to configure `profile` via flags with multiple
available profile types.
[embedmd]:# (internal/example/flags/main.go /func main/ /^}/)
```go
func main() {
log.SetPrefix("example: ")
log.SetFlags(0)
// Setup profiler.
p := profile.New(
profile.CPUProfile,
profile.MemProfile,
profile.TraceProfile,
)
// Configure flags.
n := flag.Int("n", 1000000, "sum the integers 1 to `n`")
p.SetFlags(flag.CommandLine)
flag.Parse()
// Start profiler.
defer p.Start().Stop()
// Sum 1 to n.
sum := 0
for i := 1; i <= *n; i++ {
sum += i
}
log.Printf("sum: %d", sum)
}
```
See the registered flags:
[embedmd]:# (internal/example/flags/help.err)
```err
Usage of example:
-cpuprofile file
write a cpu profile to file
-memprofile file
write an allocation profile to file
-memprofilerate rate
set memory allocation profiling rate (see runtime.MemProfileRate)
-n n
sum the integers 1 to n (default 1000000)
-trace file
write an execution trace to file
```
Profile the application with the following flags:
[embedmd]:# (internal/example/flags/run.sh sh /.*cpuprofile.*/)
```sh
example -n 1000000000 -cpuprofile cpu.out -memprofile mem.out
```
We'll see additional logging in the output, as well as the profiles `cpu.out`
and `mem.out` written on exit.
[embedmd]:# (internal/example/flags/run.err)
```err
example: cpu profile: started
example: mem profile: started
example: sum: 500000000500000000
example: cpu profile: stopped
example: mem profile: stopped
```
### Environment
For a user-facing tool you may not want to expose profiling options via flags.
The `profile` package also offers configuration by environment variable, similar
to the `GODEBUG` option offered by the Go runtime.
[embedmd]:# (internal/example/env/main.go go /.*Setup.*/ /.*Stop.*/)
```go
// Setup profiler.
defer profile.Start(
profile.AllProfiles,
profile.ConfigEnvVar("PROFILE"),
).Stop()
```
Now you can enable profiling with an environment variable, as follows:
[embedmd]:# (internal/example/env/run.sh sh /.*cpuprofile.*/)
```sh
PROFILE=cpuprofile=cpu.out,memprofile=mem.out example -n 1000000000
```
The output will be just the same as for the previous flags example. Set the
environment variable to `help` to get help on available options:
[embedmd]:# (internal/example/env/help.sh)
```sh
PROFILE=help example
```
In this case you'll see:
[embedmd]:# (internal/example/env/help.err)
```err
blockprofile=file
write a goroutine blocking profile to file
blockprofilerate=rate
set blocking profile rate (see runtime.SetBlockProfileRate)
cpuprofile=file
write a cpu profile to file
goroutineprofile=file
write a running goroutine profile to file
memprofile=file
write an allocation profile to file
memprofilerate=rate
set memory allocation profiling rate (see runtime.MemProfileRate)
mutexprofile=string
write a mutex contention profile to the named file after execution
mutexprofilefraction=int
if >= 0, calls runtime.SetMutexProfileFraction()
threadcreateprofile=file
write a thread creation profile to file
trace=file
write an execution trace to file
```
## Thanks
Thank you to [Dave Cheney](https://dave.cheney.net/) and
[contributors](https://github.com/pkg/profile/graphs/contributors) for the
excellent [`pkg/profile`](https://github.com/pkg/profile) package, which
provided the inspiration and basis for this work.
## License
`profile` is available under the [BSD 3-Clause License](LICENSE). The license
retains the copyright notice from
[`pkg/profile`](https://github.com/pkg/profile).