On: A Walk with LuaJIT

[aktau]

I'd love to use this to profile Neovim, where (nowadays) user scripts are often written in Lua 5.1. Neovim by default embeds LuaJIT (close to HEAD). Being able to see Lua functions and C functions in the stack would be amazing.

Is there a single-shot mode that I can use from the command-line? Something like:

    $ parca-perf record nvim ...

Or:

    a$ nvim ...
    b$ parca-perf top -p $(pidof nvim)

[brancz → aktau]

There isn’t, because the indented way to use Parca is to profile production and always-on.

However, we wouldn’t be against adding a mode like this!

FWIW both the server and the agent are single statically linked binaries so while it’s a bit more set up it’s not terribly difficult either[1].

[1] https://www.parca.dev/docs/quickstart/

[gnurizen → aktau]

It should work to profile neovim, does it use the luajit shared library or is it statically linked? You could run parca-agent and set up a filter to discard all non-neovim samples and leave a parca instance running locally and just restart it periodically.

[aktau → gnurizen]

At least if one self-compiles Neovim (which I do), it's statically linked.