[xdebug-general] Re: sampling mode

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Douglas Hubler wrote:

> i heard folklore of a setting to enable sampling mode that will
> collect profile information say every 500th request.
> I want to collect real-world data on production and spread the
> performance impact of collecting the data across the users.
>
> - Does this exists?
> - if not, could this be added easily?

It only exists as a sampler for *all* requests, though it won't be hard
to do it only every 1/500th time (based on random guessing).

> - If so, is it documented somewhere that i missed?

It's not documented -- yet.

> Is this even a good idea?

Yes, I think it is :-) If you want, please file a feature request at
http://xdebug.org.

with kind regards,
Derick

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