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Memray – A Memory Profiler for Python
I collected a list of profilers (also memory profilers, also specifically for Python) here: https://github.com/albertz/wiki/blob/master/profiling.md
Currently I actually need a Python memory profiler, because I want to figure out whether there is some memory leak in my application (PyTorch based training script), and where exactly (in this case, it's not a problem of GPU memory, but CPU memory).
I tried Scalene (https://github.com/plasma-umass/scalene), which seems to be powerful, but somehow the output it gives me is not useful at all? It doesn't really give me a flamegraph, or a list of the top lines with memory allocations, but instead it gives me a listing of all source code lines, and prints some (very sparse) information on each line. So I need to search through that listing now by hand to find the spots? Maybe I just don't know how to use it properly.
I tried Memray, but first ran into an issue (https://github.com/bloomberg/memray/issues/212), but after using some workaround, it worked now. I get a flamegraph out, but it doesn't really seem accurate? After a while, there don't seem to be any new memory allocations at all anymore, and I don't quite trust that this is correct.
There is also Austin (https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin), which I also wanted to try (have not yet).
Somehow this experience so far was very disappointing.
(Side node, I debugged some very strange memory allocation behavior of Python before, where all local variables were kept around after an exception, even though I made sure there is no reference anymore to the exception object, to the traceback, etc, and I even called frame.clear() for all frames to really clear it. It turns out, frame.f_locals will create another copy of all the local variables, and the exception object and all the locals in the other frame still stay alive until you access frame.f_locals again. At that point, it will sync the f_locals again with the real (fast) locals, and then it can finally free everything. It was quite annoying to find the source of this problem and to find workarounds for it. https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/113939)
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Jog: Print the last 10 commands you ran in the current directory
We use a shell history per directory per user. This is very helpful, esp in distributed shared environments.
https://github.com/albertz/wiki/blob/master/shell.md#history
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Everything you never wanted to know about ANSI escape codes
There is much more, though.
See here for an overview:
https://github.com/albertz/wiki/blob/master/terminal-escape-...
There are a couple of non-standard extensions, e.g. by iTerm:
https://iterm2.com/documentation-escape-codes.html https://iterm2.com/documentation-images.html
Some of them are pretty complicated to standardize. E.g. see this discussion on simple image support:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/...
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Everything I Know – Wiki
Skimming through this, it looks more like organized public bookmarks. Many of the pages just contain (mostly) a list of links. There are barely any notes.
I actually do this as well. Just some text files, where I put links I stumble upon, which I find interesting. Not always all links but only really interesting ones. Also maybe only for topics where I think it's not so easy to find such links later on via Google.
Sometimes I also do research on some new topic, and for that I keep notes. If I think the research / overview / my notes of this topic are of any value to others, I would maybe just make it public somewhere.
Some of these links and notes I keep private. If it is public, I would probably just put it here:
atuin
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ohmyzsh VS atuin - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 22 Feb 2024
The shell history autocomplete seems to be better than the one that comes with Oh My Zsh.
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Atuin – Magical Shell History
Atuin is lovely, although I found some of its defaults pretty annoying until I changed them:
- It turns out I basically never want fuzzy search through my command history, and certainly not by default. I gave it a try for a couple weeks but it was very frustrating to be searching for a particular command, type in the exact prefix, and have the thing I was looking for hidden among hundreds of irrelevant entries. Solution: search_mode = "fulltext" in Atuin's config.toml
- Having a full screen pop-up appear whenever I hit up was really jarring, especially since I have a habit of hitting up a few times when I'm at the command line thinking of what I need to do next, to sort of refresh my memory on what I was just doing; the popup very effectively destroyed that chain of thought. Solution: eval "$(atuin init bash --disable-up-arrow)" in .bashrc
These are pretty minor issues and it's possible my preferences are just different from most!
Atuin now works really nicely for me. My only outstanding issues are:
- Under mosh the UI ends up corrupting the screen; apparently this is really more of a mosh bug (no alternate screen support) and you can work around it by having tmux/screen running: https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/issues/1324
- I still don't have a great model in my head of how sync works and find myself occasionally force-syncing across a few systems until I convince myself everything is in the same state.
- It would be nice to have some kind of settings sync so I don't have to make the config changes mentioned above on 10 different systems. Surprisingly I don't see a feature request for this yet so maybe I'll go open one...
Anyway I don't want these issues to stop people from trying Atuin – it's a really nice piece of software. I almost never make changes to the default environment so I consider it a testament to how useful it is that I've added it to all the systems I use regularly!
- Fly through your shell history
- Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database
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fish-shell: the user-friendly command-line shell
They recently added sqlite backed history. You can also use atuin[1] for more advanced usecases.
- Atuin: Sync and search shell history
- Ask HN: Share a shell script you like
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Returning `Result<()>`
I was studying the Atuin crate, and I noticed the following pattern:
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Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desktop environment
You might be interested in https://github.com/ellie/atuin
> Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands.
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You Don't Always Need Indexes
Okay getting real off-topic now (welcome to HN) but this is not what I expected:
https://github.com/ellie/atuin/issues/952#issuecomment-15378...
What are some alternatives?
tinysearch - 🔍 Tiny, full-text search engine for static websites built with Rust and Wasm
mcfly - Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!
alfred-my-mind - Alfred workflow to search through my notes and bookmarks
fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder
knowledge - Everything I know
zsh-histdb - A slightly better history for zsh
broken-link-checker - Find broken links, missing images, etc within your HTML.
ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
jog - Simple script to print the last 10 commands you ran in the current directory
zsh-syntax-highlighting - Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.
antigen - The plugin manager for zsh.
hstr-rs - hstr, but with paging, Unicode, and fuzzy matching