publish packages

[yanns]

When dealing with some servers, it'd be great to be able to download a released package to be able to run this script on the server:

perf script | inferno-collapse-perf > stacks.folded

[jonhoo]

I'm not sure I follow — does cargo install inferno not work for you?

[yanns]

When I'm running perf on servers, where the application is running inside of a docker container, I cannot install anything. There's no cargo. But I can download a binary.

And I cannot run perf locally because I'm on mac, and the production is running on linux.

[jonhoo]

Ah, so what you're asking for are pre-built binaries on the GitHub releases page? I think we could set up something like that without too much issue using https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist — if you want to give it a shot, please do!

Not sure what you mean about that second part — inferno doesn't actually generate the traces for you, so it has nothing directly to do with perf.

[yanns]

Ah true, I could run perf script on the linux server, downloading the file, and using inferno-collapse-perf locally. I'll give it a try.

[yanns]

I could create flamegraph by using perf on the server:

$ perf record -p 1 --call-graph dwarf -o /tmp/$outputfilename.data -- sleep 10
$ perf script --no-inline -i /tmp/$outputfilename.data > /tmp/$outputfilename.script

then I can download $outputfilename.script and generate a flamegraph from it with inferno:

inferno-collapse-perf target/$outputfilename.script > target/$outputfilename.folded
cat target/$outputfilename.folded | inferno-flamegraph > target/$outputfilename.svg

Thanks for the help! I don't need the packages on the server side anymore. I might still try with https://github.com/axodotdev/cargo-dist