time test

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Mon Nov 25 04:38:04 CET 2002


David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:

> Greg,
>
> For laughs, I built bogofilter with four different optimization levels.
> The compiler switches used were '-G' (no optimization), '-O1, '-O2', and
> '-O3'.  bogofilter was run 1000 times on a test message.

Was that on 2.95.something or 3.2? Did you give any -march options or
what's default mandrake default -march?

Reducing on the overhead, I used a big mailbox.

SuSE Linux 8.1, default athlon kernel RPM, gcc 3.2, AMD Duron 700
("Spitfire") (model 3 stepping 1), 320 MB RAM, from hot reiserfs buffer
cache (I have some really useful data below):

-O6 -march=athlon: 31.45user 0.21system 0:38.98elapsed 81%CPU
-O2 -march=athlon: 31.36user 0.15system 0:32.48elapsed 97%CPU
-Os -march=athlon: 30.96user 0.42system 0:33.23elapsed 94%CPU
-O1 -march=athlon: 31.69user 0.25system 0:33.86elapsed 94%CPU
-O0 -march=athlon: 39.56user 0.36system 0:42.03elapsed 94%CPU

-Os -march=athlon:   30.96user 0.42system 0:33.23elapsed 94%CPU
-Os -march=pentium3: 30.73user 0.38system 0:31.95elapsed 97%CPU
-Os -march=pentium2: 31.15user 0.23system 0:33.74elapsed 92%CPU
-Os -march=i686:     30.91user 0.21system 0:32.00elapsed 97%CPU
-Os -march=i586:     31.03user 0.27system 0:35.51elapsed 88%CPU
-Os -march=i486:     31.01user 0.28system 0:33.21elapsed 94%CPU
-Os -march=i386:     30.72user 0.44system 0:32.33elapsed 96%CPU

-Os -march=pentium3 -mmx -malign-double -fomit-frame-pointer:
    29.56user 0.13system 0:30.51elapsed 97%CPU

-O2 -march=pentium3 -mmx -malign-double -fomit-frame-pointer:
    29.17user 0.23system 0:30.27elapsed 97%CPU

-O3 -march=pentium3 -mmx -malign-double -fomit-frame-pointer:
    29.12user 0.20system 0:30.15elapsed 97%CPU

-O2 -march=pentium3 -mmx -malign-double -fomit-frame-pointer -fbranch-probabilities:
    28.90user 0.19system 0:29.85elapsed 97%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (2692major+719minor)pagefaults 0swaps

So we can tweak 'bout 10%.

Running bogofilter on the individual mails, with formail -ds and
-march=pentium -mcpu=i686 -Os:

    55.39user 17.87system 1:16.98elapsed 95%CPU

Not sure how much overhead formail generated, that would have to be
figured, but I'm too tired to think now.


Bogolexer takes approx. 3 s to read the input, it parses 1.93 million
tokens; showing the top three:

Flat profile:

Each sample counts as 0.01 seconds.
  %   cumulative   self              self     total           
 time   seconds   seconds    calls  us/call  us/call  name    
 73.44      2.00     2.00  1984944     1.01     1.25  yylex
  8.79      2.25     0.24  1925422     0.12     1.41  get_token
  8.79      2.48     0.24   587385     0.41     0.41  lexer_fgets



And now for the real good stuff, the gprof output of bogofilter. Most of
the time is spent in collect_words and wordhash_next (as called from
collect_words). The input file has c. 587,000 lines and 2.77 million
words. The sheer number of wordhash_next calls scares me. we have
approx. 70 times the number of tokens as call amount. Is the algorithm
right? I'd thought hashes are REALLY fast. (as in O(1)). Even O(n log n)
would require a scale of 5 for the calls; n log n is 28
million. Collision issue? Or my ignorance of how wordhash_next works?
Flat profile:

Each sample counts as 0.01 seconds.
  %   cumulative   self              self     total           
 time   seconds   seconds    calls   s/call   s/call  name    
 58.62     19.34    19.34        1    19.34    32.89  collect_words
 27.96     28.57     9.22 138833114     0.00     0.00  wordhash_next
  6.59     30.74     2.17  1984944     0.00     0.00  yylex
  2.91     31.70     0.96  1922182     0.00     0.00  wordhash_insert
  1.06     32.05     0.35  1925422     0.00     0.00  get_token
  0.70     32.28     0.23  1922182     0.00     0.00  hash
  0.67     32.50     0.22   587385     0.00     0.00  lexer_fgets
  0.65     32.72     0.21     3241     0.00     0.00  wordhash_first
  0.27     32.80     0.09   584769     0.00     0.00  yyinput
  0.14     32.85     0.04   584769     0.00     0.00  yy_get_next_buffer
  0.12     32.89     0.04   132155     0.00     0.00  db_getvalue
  0.06     32.91     0.02   584768     0.00     0.00  yy_get_previous_state
  0.06     32.93     0.02    66076     0.00     0.00  compute_probability
  0.03     32.94     0.01   132401     0.00     0.00  xmalloc
  0.03     32.95     0.01   132162     0.00     0.00  xstrdup
  0.03     32.96     0.01   132155     0.00     0.00  db_enforce_locking
  0.03     32.97     0.01    66076     0.00     0.00  nmalloc
  0.03     32.98     0.01    66076     0.00     0.00  wordprop_init
  0.03     32.99     0.01        1     0.01     0.10  rob_compute_spamicity
  0.00     32.99     0.00   132400     0.00     0.00  xfree
  0.00     32.99     0.00   132152     0.00     0.00  smalloc
  0.00     32.99     0.00    66076     0.00     0.00  wordprob_init
  0.00     32.99     0.00    66076     0.00     0.00  wordprob_result
  0.00     32.99     0.00    65174     0.00     0.00  wordprob_add

[[ I killed all from here with < 10 calls ]]

 %         the percentage of the total running time of the
time       program used by this function.

cumulative a running sum of the number of seconds accounted
 seconds   for by this function and those listed above it.

 self      the number of seconds accounted for by this
seconds    function alone.  This is the major sort for this
           listing.

calls      the number of times this function was invoked, if
           this function is profiled, else blank.
 
 self      the average number of milliseconds spent in this
ms/call    function per call, if this function is profiled,
	   else blank.

 total     the average number of milliseconds spent in this
ms/call    function and its descendents per call, if this 
	   function is profiled, else blank.

name       the name of the function.  This is the minor sort
           for this listing. The index shows the location of
	   the function in the gprof listing. If the index is
	   in parenthesis it shows where it would appear in
	   the gprof listing if it were to be printed.

		     Call graph (explanation follows)


granularity: each sample hit covers 4 byte(s) for 0.03% of 32.99 seconds

index % time    self  children    called     name
                                                 <spontaneous>
[1]    100.0    0.00   32.99                 main [1]
                0.00   32.99       1/1           bogofilter [2]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           setup_lists [25]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           process_config_files [30]
                0.00    0.00       2/2           set_dir_from_env [43]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           validate_args [61]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           process_args [54]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           check_directory [47]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           close_lists [48]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00   32.99       1/1           main [1]
[2]    100.0    0.00   32.99       1         bogofilter [2]
               19.34   13.55       1/1           collect_words [3]
                0.01    0.09       1/1           rob_compute_spamicity [13]
                0.00    0.00       2/2           db_getcount [23]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           db_lock_reader_list [51]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           rob_initialize_constants [57]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           rob_bogofilter [55]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           db_lock_release_list [52]
                0.00    0.00       1/132400      xfree [33]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           wordhash_free [62]
-----------------------------------------------
               19.34   13.55       1/1           bogofilter [2]
[3]     99.7   19.34   13.55       1         collect_words [3]
                9.22    0.00 138767038/138833114     wordhash_next [4]
                0.35    2.55 1925422/1925422     get_token [5]
                0.96    0.25 1922182/1922182     wordhash_insert [7]
                0.21    0.00    3240/3241        wordhash_first [12]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           wordhash_init [31]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00   66076/138833114     rob_compute_spamicity [13]
                9.22    0.00 138767038/138833114     collect_words [3]
[4]     28.0    9.22    0.00 138833114         wordhash_next [4]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.35    2.55 1925422/1925422     collect_words [3]
[5]      8.8    0.35    2.55 1925422         get_token [5]
                2.17    0.38 1984944/1984944     yylex [6]
-----------------------------------------------
                2.17    0.38 1984944/1984944     get_token [5]
[6]      7.7    2.17    0.38 1984944         yylex [6]
                0.04    0.31  584769/584769      yy_get_next_buffer [8]
                0.02    0.00  584768/584768      yy_get_previous_state [16]
                0.00    0.00       1/3           yy_load_buffer_state [38]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           yy_create_buffer [63]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.96    0.25 1922182/1922182     collect_words [3]
[7]      3.7    0.96    0.25 1922182         wordhash_insert [7]
                0.23    0.00 1922182/1922182     hash [10]
                0.01    0.00   66076/66076       nmalloc [18]
                0.01    0.00   66076/66076       wordprop_init [20]
                0.00    0.00  132152/132152      smalloc [22]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.04    0.31  584769/584769      yylex [6]
[8]      1.1    0.04    0.31  584769         yy_get_next_buffer [8]
                0.09    0.22  584769/584769      yyinput [9]
                0.00    0.00       1/3           yy_load_buffer_state [38]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           yyrestart [64]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.09    0.22  584769/584769      yy_get_next_buffer [8]
[9]      0.9    0.09    0.22  584769         yyinput [9]
                0.22    0.00  587385/587385      lexer_fgets [11]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.23    0.00 1922182/1922182     wordhash_insert [7]
[10]     0.7    0.23    0.00 1922182         hash [10]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.22    0.00  587385/587385      yyinput [9]
[11]     0.7    0.22    0.00  587385         lexer_fgets [11]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00       1/3241        rob_compute_spamicity [13]
                0.21    0.00    3240/3241        collect_words [3]
[12]     0.7    0.21    0.00    3241         wordhash_first [12]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.01    0.09       1/1           bogofilter [2]
[13]     0.3    0.01    0.09       1         rob_compute_spamicity [13]
                0.02    0.07   66076/66076       compute_probability [14]
                0.00    0.00   66076/138833114     wordhash_next [4]
                0.00    0.00       1/3241        wordhash_first [12]
                0.00    0.00       1/132155      db_getvalue [15]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           rob_get_spamicity [56]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.02    0.07   66076/66076       rob_compute_spamicity [13]
[14]     0.3    0.02    0.07   66076         compute_probability [14]
                0.04    0.03  132152/132155      db_getvalue [15]
                0.00    0.00   66076/66076       wordprob_init [34]
                0.00    0.00   66076/66076       wordprob_result [35]
                0.00    0.00   65174/65174       wordprob_add [36]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00       1/132155      rob_compute_spamicity [13]
                0.00    0.00       2/132155      db_getcount [23]
                0.04    0.03  132152/132155      compute_probability [14]
[15]     0.2    0.04    0.03  132155         db_getvalue [15]
                0.01    0.01  132155/132162      xstrdup [17]
                0.01    0.00  132155/132155      db_enforce_locking [19]
                0.00    0.00  132155/132400      xfree [33]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.02    0.00  584768/584768      yylex [6]
[16]     0.1    0.02    0.00  584768         yy_get_previous_state [16]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00       1/132162      read_config_file [29]
                0.00    0.00       2/132162      init_list [24]
                0.00    0.00       4/132162      dbh_init [27]
                0.01    0.01  132155/132162      db_getvalue [15]
[17]     0.1    0.01    0.01  132162         xstrdup [17]
                0.01    0.00  132162/132401      xmalloc [21]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.01    0.00   66076/66076       wordhash_insert [7]
[18]     0.0    0.01    0.00   66076         nmalloc [18]
                0.00    0.00      68/132401      xmalloc [21]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.01    0.00  132155/132155      db_getvalue [15]
[19]     0.0    0.01    0.00  132155         db_enforce_locking [19]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.01    0.00   66076/66076       wordhash_insert [7]
[20]     0.0    0.01    0.00   66076         wordprop_init [20]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00       1/132401      tildeexpand [32]
                0.00    0.00       2/132401      dbh_init [27]
                0.00    0.00       2/132401      wordhash_init [31]
                0.00    0.00      68/132401      nmalloc [18]
                0.00    0.00     166/132401      smalloc [22]
                0.01    0.00  132162/132401      xstrdup [17]
[21]     0.0    0.01    0.00  132401         xmalloc [21]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00  132152/132152      wordhash_insert [7]
[22]     0.0    0.00    0.00  132152         smalloc [22]
                0.00    0.00     166/132401      xmalloc [21]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00       2/2           bogofilter [2]
[23]     0.0    0.00    0.00       2         db_getcount [23]
                0.00    0.00       2/132155      db_getvalue [15]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00       2/2           setup_lists [25]
[24]     0.0    0.00    0.00       2         init_list [24]
                0.00    0.00       2/2           open_wordlist [28]
                0.00    0.00       2/132162      xstrdup [17]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00       1/1           main [1]
[25]     0.0    0.00    0.00       1         setup_lists [25]
                0.00    0.00       2/2           init_list [24]
                0.00    0.00       2/2           build_path [39]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00       2/2           open_wordlist [28]
[26]     0.0    0.00    0.00       2         db_open [26]
                0.00    0.00       2/2           dbh_init [27]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00       2/2           db_open [26]
[27]     0.0    0.00    0.00       2         dbh_init [27]
                0.00    0.00       4/132162      xstrdup [17]
                0.00    0.00       2/132401      xmalloc [21]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00       2/2           init_list [24]
[28]     0.0    0.00    0.00       2         open_wordlist [28]
                0.00    0.00       2/2           db_open [26]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00       2/2           process_config_files [30]
[29]     0.0    0.00    0.00       2         read_config_file [29]
                0.00    0.00       1/132162      xstrdup [17]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           tildeexpand [32]
                0.00    0.00       2/132400      xfree [33]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00       1/1           main [1]
[30]     0.0    0.00    0.00       1         process_config_files [30]
                0.00    0.00       2/2           read_config_file [29]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           select_method [59]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00       1/1           collect_words [3]
[31]     0.0    0.00    0.00       1         wordhash_init [31]
                0.00    0.00       2/132401      xmalloc [21]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00       1/1           read_config_file [29]
[32]     0.0    0.00    0.00       1         tildeexpand [32]
                0.00    0.00       1/132401      xmalloc [21]
                0.00    0.00       1/132400      xfree [33]
                0.00    0.00       1/1           find_home [53]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00       1/132400      bogofilter [2]
                0.00    0.00       1/132400      tildeexpand [32]
                0.00    0.00       2/132400      read_config_file [29]
                0.00    0.00       2/132400      close_lists [48]
                0.00    0.00       4/132400      dbh_free [42]
                0.00    0.00     235/132400      wordhash_free [62]
                0.00    0.00  132155/132400      db_getvalue [15]
[33]     0.0    0.00    0.00  132400         xfree [33]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00   66076/66076       compute_probability [14]
[34]     0.0    0.00    0.00   66076         wordprob_init [34]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00   66076/66076       compute_probability [14]
[35]     0.0    0.00    0.00   66076         wordprob_result [35]
-----------------------------------------------
                0.00    0.00   65174/65174       compute_probability [14]
[36]     0.0    0.00    0.00   65174         wordprob_add [36]
-----------------------------------------------

 This table describes the call tree of the program, and was sorted by
 the total amount of time spent in each function and its children.

 Each entry in this table consists of several lines.  The line with the
 index number at the left hand margin lists the current function.
 The lines above it list the functions that called this function,
 and the lines below it list the functions this one called.
 This line lists:
     index	A unique number given to each element of the table.
		Index numbers are sorted numerically.
		The index number is printed next to every function name so
		it is easier to look up where the function in the table.

     % time	This is the percentage of the `total' time that was spent
		in this function and its children.  Note that due to
		different viewpoints, functions excluded by options, etc,
		these numbers will NOT add up to 100%.

     self	This is the total amount of time spent in this function.

     children	This is the total amount of time propagated into this
		function by its children.

     called	This is the number of times the function was called.
		If the function called itself recursively, the number
		only includes non-recursive calls, and is followed by
		a `+' and the number of recursive calls.

     name	The name of the current function.  The index number is
		printed after it.  If the function is a member of a
		cycle, the cycle number is printed between the
		function's name and the index number.


 For the function's parents, the fields have the following meanings:

     self	This is the amount of time that was propagated directly
		from the function into this parent.

     children	This is the amount of time that was propagated from
		the function's children into this parent.

     called	This is the number of times this parent called the
		function `/' the total number of times the function
		was called.  Recursive calls to the function are not
		included in the number after the `/'.

     name	This is the name of the parent.  The parent's index
		number is printed after it.  If the parent is a
		member of a cycle, the cycle number is printed between
		the name and the index number.

 If the parents of the function cannot be determined, the word
 `<spontaneous>' is printed in the `name' field, and all the other
 fields are blank.

 For the function's children, the fields have the following meanings:

     self	This is the amount of time that was propagated directly
		from the child into the function.

     children	This is the amount of time that was propagated from the
		child's children to the function.

     called	This is the number of times the function called
		this child `/' the total number of times the child
		was called.  Recursive calls by the child are not
		listed in the number after the `/'.

     name	This is the name of the child.  The child's index
		number is printed after it.  If the child is a
		member of a cycle, the cycle number is printed
		between the name and the index number.

 If there are any cycles (circles) in the call graph, there is an
 entry for the cycle-as-a-whole.  This entry shows who called the
 cycle (as parents) and the members of the cycle (as children.)
 The `+' recursive calls entry shows the number of function calls that
 were internal to the cycle, and the calls entry for each member shows,
 for that member, how many times it was called from other members of
 the cycle.


Index by function name

   [2] bogofilter             [10] hash (wordhash.c)      [62] wordhash_free
  [39] build_path             [24] init_list (wordlists.c) [31] wordhash_init
  [47] check_directory (main.c) [11] lexer_fgets           [7] wordhash_insert
  [48] close_lists            [18] nmalloc (wordhash.c)    [4] wordhash_next
   [3] collect_words          [28] open_wordlist          [36] wordprob_add (robinson.c)
  [14] compute_probability (robinson.c) [54] process_args [34] wordprob_init (robinson.c)
  [49] compute_scale (robinson.c) [30] process_config_files [35] wordprob_result (robinson.c)
  [40] db_close               [29] read_config_file (config.c) [20] wordprop_init (register.c)
  [19] db_enforce_locking (datastore_db.c) [55] rob_bogofilter [33] xfree
  [23] db_getcount            [13] rob_compute_spamicity  [21] xmalloc
  [15] db_getvalue            [56] rob_get_spamicity      [17] xstrdup
  [37] db_lock (datastore_db.c) [57] rob_initialize_constants [63] yy_create_buffer
  [50] db_lock_list (datastore_db.c) [58] rob_initialize_with_parameters [44] yy_flex_alloc (lexer.c)
  [51] db_lock_reader_list    [59] select_method (config.c) [45] yy_flush_buffer
  [41] db_lock_release        [43] set_dir_from_env (main.c) [8] yy_get_next_buffer (lexer.c)
  [52] db_lock_release_list   [60] set_good_weight        [16] yy_get_previous_state (lexer.c)
  [26] db_open                [25] setup_lists            [46] yy_init_buffer
  [42] dbh_free (datastore_db.c) [22] smalloc (wordhash.c) [38] yy_load_buffer_state
  [27] dbh_init (datastore_db.c) [32] tildeexpand          [9] yyinput (lexer.l)
  [53] find_home              [61] validate_args (config.c) [6] yylex
   [5] get_token              [12] wordhash_first         [64] yyrestart

-- 
Matthias Andree




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