I have a maven build that is extremely slow. I would like to know whether there is a way to profile maven execution in order to find out which are the most time-consuming steps.
Later I will want to compare these times between builds for older versions (which were faster), so they should be ideally in a format that can be compared/diffed/graphed.
This functionality has been included in Maven3. Here's the associated ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-4639
If you need to do the same with Maven2 I'd recommend building yor own plugin that is hooks into all phases of execution ( or just the ones you need to track).
This is the quickest possible way:
export MAVEN_OPTS="-Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.dateTimeFormat=HH:mm:ss,SSS \
-Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.showDateTime=true"
mvn test
Results in
MAVEN_OPTS="-Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.dateTimeFormat=HH:mm:ss,SSS -Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.showDateTime=true" mvn test
17:06:07,330 [INFO] Scanning for projects...
17:06:07,447 [INFO]
17:06:07,447 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
17:06:07,448 [INFO] Building bimble-server 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
17:06:07,448 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
17:06:07,747 [INFO]
17:06:07,748 [INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:resources (default-resources) @ bimble-server ---
Based on info from Stanley Hillner's blog:
Out of the box solution is the takari maven profiler:
https://github.com/takari/maven-profiler
Sample output from its page:
org.apache.maven:maven-core:3.1.2-SNAPSHOT
clean 176ms
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:2.5 (default-clean) 176ms
initialize 408ms
org.codehaus.mojo:buildnumber-maven-plugin:1.2 (create-noncanonicalrev) 349ms
org.codehaus.mojo:buildnumber-maven-plugin:1.2 (create-buildnumber) 59ms
generate-sources 408ms
org.codehaus.modello:modello-maven-plugin:1.8.1 (standard) 369ms
org.codehaus.modello:modello-maven-plugin:1.8.1 (standard) 28ms
org.codehaus.modello:modello-maven-plugin:1.8.1 (standard) 11ms
generate-resources 933ms
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-remote-resources-plugin:1.4 (default) 932ms
process-resources 225ms
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.6 (default-resources) 224ms
compile 4s 522ms
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.5.1 (default-compile) 4s 522ms
process-classes 6s 880ms
org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-maven-plugin:1.6 (check-java-1.5-compat) 5s 814ms
org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-component-metadata:1.5.5 (default) 946ms
org.sonatype.plugins:sisu-maven-plugin:1.1 (default) 120ms
process-test-resources 173ms
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.6 (default-testResources) 173ms
test-compile 818ms
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.5.1 (default-testCompile) 818ms
process-test-classes 134ms
org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-component-metadata:1.5.5 (default) 110ms
org.sonatype.plugins:sisu-maven-plugin:1.1 (default) 23ms
test 11s 306ms
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.12 (default-test) 11s 306ms
package 1s 371ms
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.4 (default-jar) 502ms
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:3.3 (attach-descriptor) 869ms
i just create a gist here : https://gist.github.com/boly38/7316378
This is a sample example on how to log datetime of some maven lifecycle steps.
Of course you could adapt this sample to set your own output format (and graph it ...).
Hope this help
Extract :
<profile>
<id>stats</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>log_validate</id>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals><goal>run</goal></goals>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<tstamp><format property="stepTstamp" pattern="dd-HH:mm:ss" locale="en,US" /></tstamp>
<echo file="stats.log" append="true"
message="${line.separator}${line.separator}${stepTstamp} validate${line.separator}"/>
</tasks>
</configuration>
</execution>
(...)
<execution>
<id>log_process_sources</id>
<phase>process-sources</phase>
<goals><goal>run</goal></goals>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<tstamp><format property="stepTstamp" pattern="dd-HH:mm:ss" locale="en,US" /></tstamp>
<echo file="stats.log" append="true"
message="${stepTstamp} process-sources${line.separator}"/>
</tasks>
</configuration>
</execution>
(...)
https://github.com/jcgay/maven-profiler is a similar handy tool. It's easy to setup and use. (Having something like it or EventSpy takari/maven-profiler in core Maven as an option would certainly be neat; comment in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-4639 ..)