Benchmark::Harness::Trace

SYNOPSIS

A harness that records the time and sequence, and simple memory usage of your program, at entries and exits of functions in the target program.

See Benchmark::Harness, "Parameters", for instruction on how to configure a test harness, and use 'Trace' as your harness name.

REPORT

The report is an XML file with schema you can find in xsd/Trace.xsd, or at http://schemas.benchmark-harness.org/Trace.xsd

For example:

<Trace see-Benchmark::Harness-for-attributes-here>
  <T _i="0" _m="E" u="0.234375" m="0" s="0.109375" t="1"/>
  <T _i="2" _m="E" u="0.234375" m="0" s="0.109375" t="1"/>
  <T _i="2" _m="X" u="0.234375" m="0" s="0.109375" t="1"/>
  <T _i="0" _m="X" u="0.234375" m="0" s="0.109375" t="1"/>
</Trace>

The @_i attribute is described in Benchmark::Harness. It identifies the name of the function being traced.

@_m will be 'E' or 'X', for entry or exit from the function.

@u is the user memory use at that moment, in megabytes.

@m is virtual memory size, in megabytes.

@s is kernal memory size, in megabytes.

@t is time since the Harness started, in seconds.

IMPACT

Approximately 0.7 millisecond per trace.

Available

These process parameters are also available via this code, but are not transferred to the harness report.

'Caption',
'CommandLine',
'CreationClassName',
'CreationDate',
'CSCreationClassName',
'CSName',
'Description',
'ExecutablePath',
'ExecutionState',
'Handle',
'HandleCount',
'InstallDate',
'KernelModeTime' => @s
'MaximumWorkingSetSize',
'MinimumWorkingSetSize',
'Name',
'OSCreationClassName',
'OSName',
'OtherOperationCount',
'OtherTransferCount',
'PageFaults',
'PageFileUsage',
'ParentProcessId',
'PeakPageFileUsage',
'PeakVirtualSize',
'PeakWorkingSetSize',
'Priority',
'PrivatePageCount',
'ProcessId',
'QuotaNonPagedPoolUsage',
'QuotaPagedPoolUsage',
'QuotaPeakNonPagedPoolUsage',
'QuotaPeakPagedPoolUsage',
'ReadOperationCount',
'ReadTransferCount',
'SessionId',
'Status',
'TerminationDate',
'ThreadCount',
'UserModeTime' => @u
'VirtualSize',
'WindowsVersion',
'WorkingSetSize' => @m
'WriteOperationCount',
'WriteTransferCount'

SEE ALSO

Benchmark::Harness

AUTHOR

Glenn Wood, <glennwood@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2004 Glenn Wood. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.