Everybody knows that logging something on screen or to a file is inevitable when you create program. It makes thing visible to you , easy control and for debugging also.
But recently what I have faced is that the performance of my application ( a bunch of services written in python) has decreased so much when I try to print out so many thing to the console ( the primary I/O channel I have ever used).
So I’m finding some ways to make this process become better.
About the context, these log is actually not realtime-critical. I want want to know which step my program is at and what is the result of the executing. That’s all.
The first testing method I try to implement is using UDP broadcasting . Sound so much insanity , right ? I just want to separate the logging process to other task. Not on my main task. And also, that logging should be flexible enough that I can choose to write on the console, write events to database or to the file without any performance-losing from my main jobs.
I have already installed twisted on my machine. So I will take advantage of it.
Let’s build a UDP Event logger server, just modify the class name of UDPEchoServer example.
We have: from twisted.internet.protocol import DatagramProtocol from twisted.internet import reactor from pprint import pprint class UDPLogger(DatagramProtocol): def datagramReceived(self, datagram, address): print 'signal from ' pprint(address) print 'content of msg = ' + repr(datagram) self.transport.write(datagram, address) def main(): reactor.listenUDP(8000, UDPLogger()) reactor.run() if __name__ == '__main__': main()
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