Bug 121662 – app-portage/herdstat-1.1.91 extremely poor performance

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-02-05 07:02:35 UTC]

'time herdstat --metadata apache' (fresh install, three runs)

app-portage/herdstat-1.1.91
dev-cpp/libherdstat-0.2.0
dev-cpp/libebt-1.3.0

real    0m28.667s
user    0m0.592s
sys     0m0.540s

real    0m9.071s
user    0m0.416s
sys     0m0.348s

real    0m10.390s
user    0m0.376s
sys     0m0.420s

vs:

app-portage/herdstat-1.1.2
dev-cpp/libherdstat-0.1.1-r1

real    0m0.184s
user    0m0.036s
sys     0m0.012s

real    0m0.045s
user    0m0.036s
sys     0m0.008s

real    0m0.043s
user    0m0.032s
sys     0m0.012s

I've asked another user on #gentoo-bugs to test the latest version and that's what he gets with 1.1.91 on the first run:

real    1m5.914s                                                                                                   
user    0m4.673s                                                                                                 
sys     0m5.864s 

Yuck... :(

[Comment 1 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2007-02-21 16:03:41 UTC]

I hit this too.  I've had to mask 1.1.91*, as I use herdstat in all kinds of scripts, and it makes it just unusable.

[Comment 2 Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) 2007-04-01 19:44:43 UTC]

@compnerd: What is going on with herdstat? Is this a work in progress? Please add some status infos or write me a mail.

[Comment 3 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2007-11-03 02:53:52 UTC]

There is basically no upstream for this package anymore, unless someone volunteers.  I'd recommend for tree-cleaners to look into wiping this out of the tree.  There are several open bugs:  http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=herdstat

[Comment 4 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2007-11-03 20:12:26 UTC]

Helps if I CC them...

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-11-03 22:04:06 UTC]

Uh, punting this is not a viable solution, developers are using this thing frequently, including myself. This 1.1.91 rewrite is screwed, 1.1.2 version is perfectly usable after fixing a couple of minor issues either manually or in the ebuild.

[Comment 6 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2007-11-04 18:33:17 UTC]

I agree... I use this extensively in my scripts, and would be very sorry to see it go.

[Comment 7 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2007-11-23 06:54:08 UTC]

Well, something needs to happen with this package.  Either punt the new stuff, or fix the old stuff.  There are a bunch of bugs open for this for quite some time now.

compnerd: opinions?

[Comment 8 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2008-01-19 22:36:41 UTC]

Is anyone strongly against punting 1.1.91 out of the tree?  Its known broken, and probably isn't ever going to be fixed.

[Comment 9 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-01-19 23:37:48 UTC]

Nah, just kill it, thanks. :)

[Comment 10 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) 2008-01-19 23:55:25 UTC]

yup, kill it

[Comment 11 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2008-01-20 02:03:35 UTC]

Punted.

[Comment 12 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) 2008-01-30 02:07:31 UTC]

We also need to kick dev-cpp/libherdstat-0.2.0.  herdstat-1.1.2 won't build against it and it's causing an up/downgrade cycle.

[Comment 13 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2008-01-30 14:57:31 UTC]

Removed