I'm profiling some code that screens a large database. The algorithm efficiency is heavily variable, based upon the different records in the database. In order to get a sense of the best place to start optimizing the code I did a hotshot profile. To make this profile took about a day. However, I've been trying to extract results from the profile for the past two days. It's eating up all the memory (2G memory) on the machine and is slowing sucking up the swap space (another 2G).
I'm hesitant to kill it for I might get results out of it some day (even if I may have to bequeath them to my grand-children), but is there a better way to do this? I'm using the following script to print my results: import sys import hotshot.stats stats = hotshot.stats.load(sys.argv[1]) stats.strip_dirs() stats.sort_stats('time', 'calls') stats.print_stats(20) The profile is 355 MB large. Is there anything I can do to extract that data? Thanks in advance, Brian Cole -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list