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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/06/14 18:33, Raphaël Badin wrote:
> On 06/23/2014 07:54 AM, Julian Edwards wrote:
>> I tried to run our tests with --with-profile earlier to see why they are
>> so damn slow in places, and the whole test runner crapped out in a heap.
>>
>> Gavin, can you help please?  You seem to be a nosey expert :)
>>
> 
> I've had good results with nose-timer in the past.  It won't give you a
> full profiling output but it can help you identify the tests that take a
> long time to run.  See http://paste.ubuntu.com/7689317/ for how to use it.

Well what I am after is a deeper profile, so I can see what code is
getting called a lot.  I have a suspicion that a load of unnecessary
tasks are being called all the time.  I have an idea that we can
basically disable all task calls in the celery fixture and nothing will
notice.  Or if it does notice, it should be an easy workaround.