memprof

memprof

memprof is a memory profiler for Python.

It logs and plots the memory usage of all the variables during the execution of the decorated methods.

Installation

Stable

::

    sudo pip install --upgrade memprof

or ::

    sudo easy_install --upgrade memprof

or (Debian testing/unstable) ::

    sudo apt-get install python-memprof
       

Development

::

git clone git://github.com/jmdana/memprof.git
cd memprof
sudo python setup.py install

or ::

sudo pip install git+https://github.com/jmdana/memprof

Usage

Using memprof is as easy as adding a decorator to the methods that you want to profile: ::

@memprof
def foo():

And importing the module just by including the line below at the beginning of your Python file: ::

from memprof import memprof

Now you can run as usual and logfiles with the names of your methods will be created (e.g. foo.log).

Generating plots

The logfiles are not very interesting so you might prefer to use the
``-p``/``--plot`` flag: ::

    python -m memprof --plot <python_file>
    python -m memprof -p <python_file>

Which, in addition to the logfile, will generate a plot (``foo.png``):

.. figure:: examples/foo.png
   :alt: Example plot

The grey bar indicates that the ``foo`` method wasn't running at that
point.

The flag may also be passed as an argument to the decorator: ::

    @memprof(plot = True)

Please keep in mind that the former takes precedence over the latter.

Adjusting the threshold

You may also want to specify a threshold. The value will be the minimum size for a variable to appear in the plot (but it will always appear in the logfile!). The default value is 1048576 (1 MB) but you can specify a different threshold (in bytes) with the -t/--threshold flag: ::

python -m memprof --threshold 1024 <python_file>
python -m memprof -t 1024 <python_file>

The threshold may also be passed as an argument to the decorator: ::

@memprof(threshold = 1024)

Please keep in mind that the former takes precedence over the latter.

mp_plot

If, after running ``memprof``, you want to change the threshold and
generate a new plot (or you forgot to use the ``-p``/``--plot`` flag
with ``memprof``), you don't have to re-run! Just call the command: ::

    mp_plot [-h] [-t THRESHOLD] logfiles [logfiles ...]

and generate the plots again doing something like: ::

    mp_plot -t 128 logfile1.log logfile2.log

or: ::

    mp_plot -t 1024 *.log

etc.

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