[TIP] Running Coverage.py with Production load and getting the report every hour

[Ankit Chopra]

Hi Ned,

Thanks for replying. Its a Python App running on django. Yes I can figure
out a way to gracefully stop it and start it again as we are running bunch
of the instances at a time. this is the option with us but I was looking
that if there is any configuration in coverage.py with which I can expect
the dump intermediately.
Another thing which if you can make me understand is how coverage.py keeps
data in memory.  Let say if i let it runs for a month, does it going to
increase the memory usage with time or it loads all the source code and
maintain a dictionary with flag 0 or 1 for every line.  If its like that
then it will not use the more memory with time, it will just mark the 1 for
the lines executed.

Thanks,
Ankit Chopra



On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 3:55 AM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com>
wrote:

> On 1/22/17 4:04 AM, Ankit Chopra wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> We want to run coverage.py in our production application. We want to
> discover the obsolete code and see the report with actual production load.
>
> I have played with coverage.py tool and have seen that it creates the
> report after execution/termination and till that time it keeps everything
> in memory.
>
> Is there a way I can configure it to dump the report at regular interval
> like every hour or daily without stopping my application. and Later on I
> can merge and create a consolidated report.
>
> What kind of application is it, why does it run so long, and is there a
> natural unit of work that you could take advantage of? For example, if it's
> a web application, the simplest thing would be to measure coverage on a
> worker process, and start and stop workers on the frequency you want.
>
> --Ned.
>
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