[Zope3-dev] Performance Testing

[Nicola Larosa]

>> I suggest to extend the approach by adding monitoring of the resident
>> memory occupied by the process, alongside the execution time. Zope 3 is a
>> rather huge beast, doing all the things it does.

> Can this be *reliably* done on all platforms? In other words, is there a 
> *reliable* Python package that supports such features? If not, we can stop 
> discussing such a feature right now.

No existing Python package that I know of.

Furthermore, I haven't the foggiest idea about measuring used memory
neither on Windows nor on OS/X.

Finally, it looks like it's not that simple getting meaningful numbers even
on Linux:

On measuring memory usage
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1445

Oh, well.

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