Cement apps can be profiled with cProfile very easily, however there are some considerations as it may not work "out of the box" as expected. This doc comes as the output of the following issue on Github:
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Profiling Commands
In order to profile specific commands within our app, we need to save cProfile to an output file. For basic example, we can run myapp --help with cProfile with the following, which will save our profile to the file prof.dat:
Copy python -m cProfile -o prof.dat -m myapp.main --help
The output file should probably named appropriately based on what you are profiling. For example, if I need to profile command1 I will save that to it's own profile output file.
Copy python -m cProfile -o prof-command1.dat -m myapp.main command1
Inside MyApp.command1()
Inspecting a Profile
Now that we have our commands profiled, we can inspect that same as any other program. Here we are opening up the prof.dat with pstats:
Copy python -m pstats prof.dat
Welcome to the profile statistics browser.
prof.dat% You might want to sort by "cumulative time" (cumtime) and then review the stats:
Copy prof.dat% sort cumtime
prof.dat% stats
Tue Jan 2 03:07:11 2024 prof.dat
150506 function calls (146817 primitive calls) in 0.202 seconds
Ordered by: cumulative time
ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function)
182/1 0.002 0.000 0.202 0.202 {built-in method builtins.exec}
1 0.000 0.000 0.202 0.202 <string>:1(<module>)
1 0.000 0.000 0.202 0.202 /usr/local/lib/python3.8/runpy.py:197(run_module)
1 0.000 0.000 0.197 0.197 /usr/local/lib/python3.8/runpy.py:64(_run_code)
1 0.000 0.000 0.197 0.197 /src/tmp/myapp/myapp/main.py:2(<module>)
195/12 0.001 0.000 0.191 0.016 <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:986(_find_and_load)
195/12 0.001 0.000 0.191 0.016 <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:956(_find_and_load_unlocked)
186/14 0.001 0.000 0.185 0.013 <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:650(_load_unlocked)
158/14 0.001 0.000 0.184 0.013 <frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>:837(exec_module)
248/14 0.000 0.000 0.177 0.013 <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:211(_call_with_frames_removed)
44/25 0.000 0.000 0.155 0.006 {built-in method builtins.__import__}
1 0.000 0.000 0.107 0.107 /src/tmp/myapp/myapp/main.py:57(main)
1 0.000 0.000 0.103 0.103 /src/cement/core/foundation.py:1733(__enter__)
1 0.000 0.000 0.103 0.103 /src/cement/core/foundation.py:880(setup)
1 0.000 0.000 0.100 0.100 /src/cement/core/foundation.py:1269(_setup_extension_handler)
2 0.000 0.000 0.100 0.050 /src/cement/core/extension.py:135(load_extensions)
9 0.000 0.000 0.100 0.011 /src/cement/core/extension.py:99(load_extension)
1 0.000 0.000 0.069 0.069 /src/cement/__init__.py:4(<module>)
76/55 0.000 0.000 0.065 0.001 <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:1017(_handle_fromlist)
1 0.000 0.000 0.053 0.053 /src/cement/core/foundation.py:1(<module>)
159 0.002 0.000 0.050 0.000 <frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>:909(get_code)
1 0.000 0.000 0.040 0.040 /src/cement/ext/ext_jinja2.py:1(<module>)
1 0.000 0.000 0.039 0.039 /usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jinja2/__init__.py:1(<module>)
260 0.001 0.000 0.038 0.000 /usr/local/lib/python3.8/re.py:289(_compile)
685/647 0.007 0.000 0.038 0.000 {built-in method builtins.__build_class__}
103 0.000 0.000 0.037 0.000 /usr/local/lib/python3.8/re.py:250(compile)
1 0.000 0.000 0.037 0.037 /usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py:1(<module>)
83 0.000 0.000 0.037 0.000 /usr/local/lib/python3.8/sre_compile.py:759(compile)
159 0.007 0.000 0.032 0.000 <frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>:1029(get_data)
192 0.001 0.000 0.027 0.000 <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:890(_find_spec)
188 0.000 0.000 0.024 0.000 <frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>:1399(find_spec)
188 0.002 0.000 0.024 0.000 <frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>:1367(_get_spec)
1 0.000 0.000 0.023 0.023 /src/cement/ext/ext_smtp.py:1(<module>)
1 0.000 0.000 0.022 0.022 /src/cement/core/arg.py:1(<module>)
321 0.003 0.000 0.021 0.000 <frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>:1498(find_spec)
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