[Fusioninventory-devel] /usr/sbin/system_profiler timeout on MacOSX

[David Durieux]

Le 2013-04-03 16:17, Gonéri Le Bouder a écrit :
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 09:58:01AM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>> Le 03/04/2013 09:01, David Durieux a écrit :
>> >
>> >In MacOSX(agent 2.2.x), the function getSystemProfilerInfos() run
>> >command '/usr/sbin/system_profiler' and can make 2 or 3 minutes to
>> >complete get information. We must increase 
>> 'backend-collect-timeout' in
>> >agent config.
>> I'd rather not change a global defaut value for everyone just 
>> because you're
>> facing the issue on a specific host. Is that true for all macos 
>> hosts, first
>> ?
> I had a similar issue on a Windows system with the software module. I
> believe we can increase backend-collect-timeout back to 180s. At best 
> it
> will be armless for more of the users.
>
>> >Another problem is MacOSX run this command many time (one time for 
>> each
>> >CPU, Memory, storage and video) perhaps run only one time and store
>> >result in memory to parse it when modules require it can be a good 
>> idea?
>> All calls to the getSystemProfilerInfo() with the same parameters 
>> are
>> already cached, thanks to memoize usage line 17 in
>> FusionInventory::Agent::Tools::MacOs:
>> memoize('getSystemProfilerInfos');
>>
>> According to grep, it is called either as:
>> getSystemProfilerInfo()
>> getSystemProfilerInfo(logger => $logger)
>> getSystemProfilerInfo(type => 'SPApplicationsDataType', logger => 
>> $logger)
>>
>> Indeed, the first two ones should be merged, as this is strictly the 
>> same
>> command invocation. However, the last one requires a different 
>> command
>> execution, and can't be merged.
> I use the agent on MacOSX a lot and I'm surprise by this performance 
> issue
> with system_profiler. Maybe it's related to a specific slow device?

Mac mini installed yesterday