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From: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
To: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] trace2: don't overload target directories
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 14:00:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ccf15ac-0e53-7044-e7b0-03bb229824d8@jeffhostetler.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99e4a0fe409a236d210d95e54cd03fce61daa291.1564438745.git.steadmon@google.com>



On 7/29/2019 6:20 PM, Josh Steadmon wrote:
> trace2 can write files into a target directory. With heavy usage, this
> directory can fill up with files, causing difficulty for
> trace-processing systems.

I'm routing data in my org to a daemon via a Named Pipe or UD Socket,
so I'm not seeing the thousands of files problems that you're seeing.
However, we were being overwhelmed with lots of "uninteresting" commands
and so I added some whitelisting to my post-processing daemon.  For
example, I want to know about checkout and push times -- I really don't
care about rev-parse or config times or other such minor commands.

I went one step further and allow either "(cmd_name)" or
the pair "(cmd_name, cmd_mode)".  This lets me select all checkouts
and limit checkouts to branch-changing ones, for example.  I drop
any events in my post-processor that does not match any of my whitelist
patterns.

Perhaps you could run a quick histogram and see if something would
be useful to pre-filter the data.  That is, if we had whitelisting
within git.exe itself, would you still have too much data and/or
would you still need the overload feature that you've proposed in
this RFC?

Thanks,
Jeff


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-30 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-29 22:20 [RFC PATCH] trace2: don't overload target directories Josh Steadmon
2019-07-30 13:29 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-07-30 21:52   ` Josh Steadmon
2019-07-30 16:46 ` Jeff Hostetler
2019-07-30 22:01   ` Josh Steadmon
2019-07-30 22:02   ` Josh Steadmon
2019-07-30 18:00 ` Jeff Hostetler [this message]
2019-07-30 22:08   ` Josh Steadmon
2019-08-02 22:02 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] " Josh Steadmon
2019-08-02 22:02   ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] docs: mention trace2 target-dir mode in git-config Josh Steadmon
2019-08-02 22:02   ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] trace2: don't overload target directories Josh Steadmon
2019-08-05 15:34     ` Jeff Hostetler
2019-08-05 18:17       ` Josh Steadmon
2019-08-05 18:01     ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-08-05 18:09       ` Josh Steadmon
2019-09-14  0:25 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] " Josh Steadmon
2019-09-14  0:25   ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/3] docs: mention trace2 target-dir mode in git-config Josh Steadmon
2019-09-14  0:25   ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] trace2: don't overload target directories Josh Steadmon
2019-09-14  0:26   ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/3] trace2: write overload message to sentinel files Josh Steadmon
2019-09-16 12:07     ` Derrick Stolee
2019-09-16 14:11       ` Jeff Hostetler
2019-09-16 18:20         ` Josh Steadmon
2019-09-19 18:23           ` Jeff Hostetler
2019-09-19 22:47             ` Josh Steadmon
2019-09-20 15:59               ` Jeff Hostetler
2019-09-16 18:07       ` Josh Steadmon
2019-10-03 23:32 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] trace2: don't overload target directories Josh Steadmon
2019-10-03 23:32   ` [PATCH v4 1/4] docs: mention trace2 target-dir mode in git-config Josh Steadmon
2019-10-03 23:32   ` [PATCH v4 2/4] docs: clarify trace2 version invariants Josh Steadmon
2019-10-03 23:32   ` [PATCH v4 3/4] trace2: don't overload target directories Josh Steadmon
2019-10-04  0:25     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-04 21:57       ` Josh Steadmon
2019-10-04  9:12     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-04 22:05       ` Josh Steadmon
2019-10-03 23:32   ` [PATCH v4 4/4] trace2: write overload message to sentinel files Josh Steadmon
2019-10-04 22:08 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] trace2: discard new traces if the target directory contains too many files Josh Steadmon
2019-10-04 22:08   ` [PATCH v5 1/4] docs: mention trace2 target-dir mode in git-config Josh Steadmon
2019-10-04 22:08   ` [PATCH v5 2/4] docs: clarify trace2 version invariants Josh Steadmon
2019-10-04 22:08   ` [PATCH v5 3/4] trace2: discard new traces if target directory has too many files Josh Steadmon
2019-10-04 22:08   ` [PATCH v5 4/4] trace2: write discard message to sentinel files Josh Steadmon

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