[BIOSAL] Thorium - logging?

[George K. Thiruvathukal]

Hi Seb,

I like your idea of thorium_actor_log(). We can start with something
simple. The two things I often want to log (and filter) are actor and the
message tag (ideally, putting these toward the beginning of the log output.

George


George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
*Professor of Computer Science*, Loyola University Chicago
*Director*, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
*Guest Faculty*, Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer Science
Division
Editor in Chief, Computing in Science and Engineering
<http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/cise> (IEEE CS/AIP)
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Boisvert, Sebastien <boisvert at anl.gov>
wrote:

> Just to be sure, do you want thorium_actor_log() or you are fine with
> LTTng ?
>
>
> In both cases, I can take action so that you get what you need to move
> forward.
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> > From: George K. Thiruvathukal [gkt at cs.luc.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 9:38 AM
> > To: Boisvert, Sebastien
> > Cc: biosal at lists.cels.anl.gov
> > Subject: Re: [BIOSAL] Thorium - logging?
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> > Thanks for reminding me about this! Yes, that's exactly what I was
> hoping to find.
> >
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> > I just don't want to be using explicit printf() statements.
> >
> >
> > See you tomorrow. I am hoping to push out a new version of my
> hello_acquaintances today. :) We'll work on the paper tomorrow morning
> (among other things).
> >
> >
> > George
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
> >
> > Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago
> >
> > Director, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
> > Guest Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer Science
> Division
> > Editor in Chief, Computing in
> >  Science and Engineering (IEEE CS/AIP)
> >
> > (w)
> > thiruvathukal.com (v) 773.829.4872
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> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Boisvert, Sebastien
> > <boisvert at anl.gov> wrote:
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> > > From:
> > biosal-bounces at lists.cels.anl.gov [biosal-bounces at lists.cels.anl.gov]
> on behalf of George
> >  K. Thiruvathukal [gkt at cs.luc.edu]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 9:12 AM
> > > To:
> > biosal at lists.cels.anl.gov
> > > Subject: [BIOSAL] Thorium - logging?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Quick Thorium question...
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there any sort of logging framework for Thorium?
> >
> > There are the LTTng tracepoints, and some "custom" tracepoints. LTTng is
> very useful to trace race conditions.
> >
> > There are already instrumentation for events such as
> thorium_actor:receive_enter.
> >
> >
> > > Owing to a bit of a bug, I am suddenly seeing the need for a way to
> log distributed events (in example/application-oriented codes).
> >
> > If the ordering of these distributed events is important, than LTTng is
> the tool to use in my opinion.
> >
> > For any message that is received, there is a tracepoint event already
> instrumented.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > In the simplest form, something like a log(format, args) would do the
> trick. What I would like is some way to prefix the output with the actor
> name (number) so I could filter out various logging events.
> >
> > In your case, I suppose that this could work for you:
> >
> > thorium_actor_log(self, format, args);
> >
> > example:
> >
> > thorium_actor_log(self, "foo = %d bar= %d", 42, 99);
> >
> > which would print
> >
> > [LOG] 2014-11-24T21:14:29+00:00 my_cool_actor_script/1234 says: foo= 42
> bar= 99
> >
> > The first iteration of that would write to stdout, if that's all right
> with you.
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> > > Best,
> > > George
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> > > George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
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> > > Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago
> > >
> > > Director, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
> > > Guest Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer Science
> Division
> > > Editor in Chief, Computing in
> > >  Science and Engineering (IEEE CS/AIP)
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> > > (w)
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> > thiruvathukal.com (v) 773.829.4872
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