jvector has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Salutations,

I am interested in profiling a web application built with CGI::Application, using Devel::NYTProf.

The docs for NYTProf recommend running a Perl file directly from the command line; or, for profiling under Apache, putting a PerlModule line in httpd.conf. However, this latter method presupposes that one has mod_perl enabled which is not the case in my environment.

I've tried, from the command line, running individual test scripts from the t/ directory but I would quite like to get a profile of the site whilst it's being used from a browser session.

Is that a sensible/reasonable thing to be seeking, and if so can it be done?

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Re: Using Devel::NYTProf with CGI::Application
by rsteiner (Scribe) on Sep 26, 2012 at 17:21 UTC

    Yes, you can do this.

    Just modify the shebang line of your CGI::Application Instance script to something like the following:

    #!/usr/bin/perl -d:NYTProf

    The output file should be created in the same directory as the instance script.

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      Thank you very much - that Just Worked! And I do apologise for the late reply - I have only just seen this.
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      Gr8 .. Thanks a lot :)
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      Hi.. But this file is NYTprof.out is not in readable format. I tried to open it with Browser (ie, mozilla).. but no success.plz advise.
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