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Profiling/Benchmarking #204738 29/09/08 10:02 PM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 110 D DeathWolf OP Vogon poet
OP DeathWolf Vogon poet D Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 110	What would be typically used to measure where time is spent?(in scripts) I am frequently experiencing freezes of 5-10s in my vista64 mirc and I'm not too sure where it comes from.(It only seems to happen after a few days of use though, so it's hard to debug, I am actually wondering if it might be some sort of gdi fragmentation or something) I only have aliases defined, and a dozen very specific on TEXT/on NOTICE, which are almost never run through... So the slowdowns do not make sense. Last edited by DeathWolf; 29/09/08 10:10 PM.

Re: Profiling/Benchmarking DeathWolf #204739 29/09/08 10:38 PM
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,149 France W Wims Hoopy frood
Wims Hoopy frood W Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,149 France	when testing something, you can use $ticks to measure the execution time : Code: alias benchmark { var %ticks = $ticks ;your script here echo -a execution in $calc($ticks - %t) ms } This is a basic exemple. #mircscripting @ irc.swiftirc.net == the best mIRC help channel

Re: Profiling/Benchmarking Wims #204741 30/09/08 01:21 AM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,918 Montreal, QC, Canada A argv0 Hoopy frood
argv0 Hoopy frood A Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,918 Montreal, QC, Canada	1. $ticks - %t is not a milliseconds value. 2. That wouldn't really help pinpoints slowdowns in a large blackbox as Deathwolf is describing. @Deathwolf: Unfortunately, there's no way to tell what part of a script is slowing you down besides manually testing each event independently of others. I'd unload scripts until the slowdown is gone then focus on the last file you unloaded... assuming you have scripts loaded. Also look at loaded dlls by typing //echo -a $dll(0) to see if you have any loaded and then $dll(1) $dll(2) ... to the number returned by $dll(0) to see each file. You can unload them with //dll -u $dll(N) - argv[0] on EFnet #mIRC - "Life is a pointer to an integer without a cast"

Re: Profiling/Benchmarking argv0 #204762 30/09/08 05:13 PM
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,149 France W Wims Hoopy frood
Wims Hoopy frood W Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,149 France	I've just answered the question, and could you say then, which value is "$ticks - %t" ? #mircscripting @ irc.swiftirc.net == the best mIRC help channel

Re: Profiling/Benchmarking Wims #204763 30/09/08 05:35 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK C Collective Hoopy frood
Collective Hoopy frood C Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK	$ticks does indeed return a value in milliseconds, however it's accuracy is variable depending on the system on which mIRC is running. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724408(VS.85).aspx

Re: Profiling/Benchmarking Collective #204764 30/09/08 05:58 PM
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Wims Hoopy frood W Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,149 France	$ticks as an accuracy between 10-15 ms, depending on the system as you said, but it's not important here #mircscripting @ irc.swiftirc.net == the best mIRC help channel

Re: Profiling/Benchmarking argv0 #204803 01/10/08 07:13 PM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 110 D DeathWolf OP Vogon poet
OP DeathWolf Vogon poet D Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 110	Originally Posted By: argv0 1. $ticks - %t is not a milliseconds value. 2. That wouldn't really help pinpoints slowdowns in a large blackbox as Deathwolf is describing. @Deathwolf: Unfortunately, there's no way to tell what part of a script is slowing you down besides manually testing each event independently of others. I'd unload scripts until the slowdown is gone then focus on the last file you unloaded... assuming you have scripts loaded. Also look at loaded dlls by typing //echo -a $dll(0) to see if you have any loaded and then $dll(1) $dll(2) ... to the number returned by $dll(0) to see each file. You can unload them with //dll -u $dll(N) No dlls loaded... Symptoms: -mIRC has bursts of unresponsiveness where nothing happens(cant type or view anything, it's stuck in redraw. -CPU usage usually saturates during those, with ~50% of kernel usage. -the symptom usually appears after a few days of heavy use of mirc.(I usually have a largely 3 digit count of windows) -unloading scripts does not help -it typically seems to happen when I type When I check the stack it's never interesting(ie, not stuck in a particular call). Any ideas? OS: windows server 2008 64bit Memory: 4GB of ram(never filled, lots of it free) CPU: Core 2 Q6600 also mostly idle Last edited by DeathWolf; 01/10/08 09:26 PM.

Re: Profiling/Benchmarking DeathWolf #204812 02/10/08 12:00 AM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,918 Montreal, QC, Canada A argv0 Hoopy frood
argv0 Hoopy frood A Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,918 Montreal, QC, Canada	Does it typically seem to happen when you're typing unicode characters? Font linking could cause slowdowns. - argv[0] on EFnet #mIRC - "Life is a pointer to an integer without a cast"

Re: Profiling/Benchmarking argv0 #204818 02/10/08 12:54 PM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 110 D DeathWolf OP Vogon poet
OP DeathWolf Vogon poet D Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 110	not typically, I'll try turning it off though.

Re: Profiling/Benchmarking DeathWolf #204827 03/10/08 03:35 AM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 110 D DeathWolf OP Vogon poet
OP DeathWolf Vogon poet D Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 110	Apparently this did not help... I am still getting freezes that sometimes last more than 10seconds fully using the cpu. (which indicates quite serious activity considering it's a Q6600) Last edited by DeathWolf; 03/10/08 03:35 AM.

Re: Profiling/Benchmarking DeathWolf #204859 04/10/08 07:00 AM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,918 Montreal, QC, Canada A argv0 Hoopy frood
argv0 Hoopy frood A Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,918 Montreal, QC, Canada	It freezes your entire machine or just mIRC? There is always the possibility that it's not mIRC at all-- some AV or firewall software could be responsible for freezing mirc, or perhaps your entire cpu is slowing down caused by a completely different prcoess. - argv[0] on EFnet #mIRC - "Life is a pointer to an integer without a cast"

Re: Profiling/Benchmarking DeathWolf #204869 04/10/08 02:13 PM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 110 D DeathWolf OP Vogon poet
OP DeathWolf Vogon poet D Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 110	Could anyone suggest a snippet to write all activity to a debug file with precise timestamps? I might be able to identify the cause of the freezes then.(by checking which was the last received bunch of text) It would have to be multiserver @debug in a single window since I'm connected to multiple servers. Originally Posted By: argv0 It freezes your entire machine or just mIRC? There is always the possibility that it's not mIRC at all-- some AV or firewall software could be responsible for freezing mirc, or perhaps your entire cpu is slowing down caused by a completely different prcoess. I've tried disabling the av, and the av logs indicate no activity. Same with firewall. Also the cpu charts clearly indicate it's mirc using the cpu, not another process.(I have charts of the cpu used by mirc clearly showing the usage) Last edited by DeathWolf; 04/10/08 02:15 PM.

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