Re: Benchmarking a script that can't be executed form the command line

From: James Willmore (jwillmore_at_remove.adelphia.net)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 04:24:10 GMT

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 22:07:53 GMT
Erik Tank <jundy@jundy.com> wrote:

> I have written a web based help desk/billing/anything else my
> employeer wants it to be system using Perl. It's been in production
> over 1 year now and working well but some things are beginning to
> slow down. I am trying to figure out where the slow down is occure.
>
> With other scripts I have always used DProf/SmallProf or something
> like that but the problem here is there are several security
> precautions that make it (so far) unexecutable from the command
> line. To clarify I can execute it but I simply get a redirect to the
> login script.
>
> Any thoughts/suggestions?

There are several logging module that could aid you in trying to find
out what's going on. One of them is Log::TraceMessages. Put this
together with Time::HiRes, and you could see what's going on.

Another option is to re-think your code to allow it to be run from the
command line - you may run into this type of situation again.

HTH 

-- 
Jim
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