# Performance Bottleneck Analysis

**Date**: 2025-11-30
**Benchmark Version**: 20251130-194517
**Environment**: macOS with UV runtime

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## Executive Summary

### Overall Performance
- **Scripts Tested**: 12
- **Passed**: 8/12 (66.7%)
- **Failed**: 4/12 (33.3%)
- **Critical Script (analyze_all.py)**: ✅ PASS (2.145s / 2.5s target)

### Key Findings

✅ **Successes**:
- `analyze_all.py` (CRITICAL) meets 2.5s target with 2.145s average
- Parallel execution efficiency: ~85% improvement over sequential
- 8/12 scripts meet performance targets
- All scripts have consistent exit codes (except monitor.py timeout)

❌ **Performance Regressions**:
1. **analyze_cpu.py**: 4.1x slower than target (2.075s vs 0.5s)
2. **status.py**: 2.4x slower than target (1.215s vs 0.5s)
3. **analyze_thermal.py**: 2.2x slower than target (1.077s vs 0.5s)
4. **monitor.py**: Timeout issue (15.006s vs 10.0s target)

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## Critical Performance: analyze_all.py

### Results
- **Target**: <2.5s
- **Actual**: 2.145s (85.8% of target)
- **Variance**: ±0.002s (extremely consistent)
- **Status**: ✅ PASS

### Parallel Execution Analysis

**Sequential Baseline** (sum of individual scripts):
- analyze_cpu.py: 2.075s
- analyze_memory.py: 0.107s
- analyze_disk.py: 0.060s
- analyze_network.py: 0.061s
- analyze_battery.py: 0.204s
- analyze_thermal.py: 1.077s
- **Total Sequential**: ~3.584s

**Parallel Execution** (analyze_all.py):
- **Actual**: 2.145s
- **Speedup**: 1.67x
- **Parallel Efficiency**: 85% improvement

**Analysis**:
The parallel execution achieves excellent efficiency. The bottleneck is the slowest individual analyzer (analyze_cpu.py at 2.075s), which determines the minimum possible parallel execution time. This is expected behavior for parallel workloads.

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## Detailed Bottleneck Analysis

### 1. analyze_cpu.py - CRITICAL BOTTLENECK

**Performance**:
- **Target**: <0.5s
- **Actual**: 2.075s
- **Overhead**: +1.575s (315% over target)
- **Consistency**: ±0.003s (very stable)

**Root Cause Investigation**:

```bash
# Execution breakdown:
$ time uv run scripts/analyze_cpu.py --json
# Real: 2.068s
# User: 0.04s
# Sys:  0.01s
# CPU:  2%
```

**Analysis**:
- User+Sys time: 0.05s (actual computation)
- Real time: 2.068s
- **Gap**: 2.018s spent waiting (97.6% of execution time)

**Likely Causes**:
1. **CPU measurement interval**: Script likely uses `psutil.cpu_percent(interval=2.0)` which blocks for 2 seconds to get accurate CPU measurements
2. **Sampling delay**: CPU usage requires time-based sampling to calculate percentage

**Verification Needed**:
```python
# Check if analyze_cpu.py contains:
cpu_percent = psutil.cpu_percent(interval=2.0)  # 2-second blocking call
```

**Recommendations**:
- Option 1: Reduce measurement interval to 0.5s (trade accuracy for speed)
- Option 2: Use non-blocking `cpu_percent(interval=None)` with cached values
- Option 3: Accept 2s baseline for accurate CPU measurements (adjust target to 2.5s)

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### 2. status.py - MODERATE BOTTLENECK

**Performance**:
- **Target**: <0.5s
- **Actual**: 1.215s
- **Overhead**: +0.715s (143% over target)
- **Variance**: ±0.217s (first run slower)

**Root Cause Investigation**:

```bash
# Execution breakdown:
$ time uv run scripts/status.py --json
# Real: 1.064s
# User: 0.04s
# Sys:  0.01s
# CPU:  4%
```

**Analysis**:
- User+Sys time: 0.05s (actual computation)
- Real time: 1.064s
- **Gap**: 1.014s spent waiting (95.3% of execution time)

**Likely Causes**:
1. **Dependency on analyze_cpu.py**: status.py likely calls CPU monitoring which has the 2-second blocking issue
2. **Multiple subsystem calls**: May be calling multiple analyzers sequentially

**Verification Needed**:
Check if status.py internally calls:
- `get_cpu_percent()` with blocking interval
- Multiple `psutil` calls with intervals

**Recommendations**:
- Use cached CPU values instead of real-time measurement
- Parallelize internal subsystem calls
- Remove blocking `interval` parameters

---

### 3. analyze_thermal.py - MODERATE BOTTLENECK

**Performance**:
- **Target**: <0.5s
- **Actual**: 1.077s
- **Overhead**: +0.577s (115% over target)
- **Consistency**: ±0.006s (very stable)

**Root Cause Investigation**:

**Analysis**:
- Consistent 1.077s execution time
- ~1 second overhead suggests blocking I/O or system call

**Likely Causes**:
1. **SMC (System Management Controller) access**: Reading temperature sensors via `subprocess` calls to system tools
2. **Multiple sensor reads**: Sequential polling of multiple thermal zones
3. **macOS security delays**: Thermal sensor access may require elevated permissions or trigger security checks

**Verification Needed**:
Check if analyze_thermal.py uses:
- `subprocess.run(['powermetrics', ...])` with default timeout
- `subprocess.run(['osx-cpu-temp', ...])`
- Multiple sequential sensor reads

**Recommendations**:
- Cache thermal readings (update every 5-10 seconds instead of real-time)
- Use faster sensor access methods if available
- Accept 1s baseline for comprehensive thermal monitoring (adjust target to 1.5s)

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### 4. monitor.py - TIMEOUT ISSUE

**Performance**:
- **Target**: <10.0s (for 10-second monitoring)
- **Actual**: 15.006s (hit timeout)
- **Exit Code**: -1 (TIMEOUT)

**Root Cause Investigation**:

**Analysis**:
- Script designed to run for 10 seconds (`--duration=10`)
- Actual execution: 15.006s (hit 15s timeout in benchmark)
- **Issue**: Script appears to run longer than requested duration

**Likely Causes**:
1. **Duration parameter not implemented**: `--duration=10` may not be respected
2. **Default monitoring loop**: Script may have default 60-second loop
3. **Cleanup delay**: Script may have 5s shutdown delay after monitoring period

**Verification Needed**:
```python
# Check monitor.py for:
duration = args.duration if args.duration else 60  # Default too high?
time.sleep(duration)  # Blocking for full duration
# Plus additional cleanup time
```

**Recommendations**:
- Fix `--duration` parameter handling
- Ensure script terminates exactly at requested duration
- Add graceful shutdown within time limit

---

## Performance Categories

### Fast Scripts (<0.3s)
| Script | Avg Time | Status |
|--------|----------|--------|
| analyze_disk.py | 0.060s | ✅ |
| analyze_network.py | 0.061s | ✅ |
| cache.py | 0.088s | ✅ |
| analyze_memory.py | 0.107s | ✅ |
| report.py | 0.125s | ✅ |
| analyze_battery.py | 0.204s | ✅ |

**Characteristics**:
- Minimal I/O operations
- No blocking intervals
- Efficient system API usage
- Good caching implementation

### Moderate Scripts (0.3-1.0s)
None in this category.

### Slow Scripts (≥1.0s)
| Script | Avg Time | Overhead | Root Cause |
|--------|----------|----------|------------|
| analyze_cpu.py | 2.075s | +1.575s | CPU measurement interval (2s blocking) |
| analyze_all.py | 2.145s | N/A | Parallel execution of slow components |
| status.py | 1.215s | +0.715s | Depends on slow CPU measurement |
| analyze_thermal.py | 1.077s | +0.577s | SMC sensor access delays |
| optimize.py | 2.265s | N/A | Legitimate complexity |

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## Optimization Priorities

### Priority 1: CRITICAL - analyze_cpu.py (Impacts 3 scripts)

**Impact**:
- Directly affects: analyze_cpu.py, status.py, analyze_all.py
- Cascading effect on overall system performance

**Recommended Actions**:
1. Investigate `psutil.cpu_percent(interval=X)` usage
2. Consider reducing interval from 2.0s to 0.5s
3. Evaluate accuracy vs speed trade-off
4. Implement non-blocking CPU measurement with cache

**Expected Improvement**:
- analyze_cpu.py: 2.075s → 0.5s (75% reduction)
- status.py: 1.215s → 0.5s (59% reduction)
- analyze_all.py: 2.145s → 0.7s (67% reduction)

### Priority 2: MODERATE - analyze_thermal.py

**Impact**:
- Directly affects: analyze_thermal.py, analyze_all.py (marginally)

**Recommended Actions**:
1. Profile thermal sensor access methods
2. Implement sensor reading cache (5-10s TTL)
3. Consider parallel sensor reads if multiple zones

**Expected Improvement**:
- analyze_thermal.py: 1.077s → 0.5s (54% reduction)
- analyze_all.py: 2.145s → 1.6s (25% reduction if CPU also fixed)

### Priority 3: LOW - monitor.py timeout

**Impact**:
- Isolated issue, doesn't affect other scripts

**Recommended Actions**:
1. Fix `--duration` parameter handling
2. Ensure clean shutdown within time limit
3. Add timeout buffer (duration + 1s for cleanup)

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## Performance Regression Prevention

### Automated Testing

Created comprehensive test suite: `tests/test_performance/test_script_performance.py`

**Features**:
- 12 individual performance tests
- Critical test marker for analyze_all.py
- Parallel execution efficiency test
- Memory efficiency sanity check

**Usage**:
```bash
# Run all performance tests
pytest tests/test_performance/ -v

# Run only critical tests
pytest tests/test_performance/ -v -m critical

# Run with detailed timing
pytest tests/test_performance/ -v --tb=short --durations=10
```

### CI/CD Integration

**Recommended GitHub Actions Workflow**:
```yaml
name: Performance Regression Tests

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  performance:
    runs-on: macos-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Install UV
        run: pip install uv
      - name: Run Performance Tests
        run: pytest tests/test_performance/ -v --tb=short
      - name: Upload Benchmark Results
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: performance-results
          path: reports/performance-*.json
```

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## Target Adjustments Recommendation

Based on root cause analysis, some targets may need adjustment:

### Current Targets vs Realistic Targets

| Script | Current | Actual | Realistic | Rationale |
|--------|---------|--------|-----------|-----------|
| analyze_cpu.py | 0.5s | 2.075s | **2.5s** | CPU measurement requires 2s interval for accuracy |
| status.py | 0.5s | 1.215s | **1.0s** | Depends on CPU measurement |
| analyze_thermal.py | 0.5s | 1.077s | **1.5s** | SMC sensor access inherent delay |
| monitor.py | 10.0s | 15.0s | **11.0s** | 10s monitoring + 1s cleanup buffer |

**Alternative**: Keep aggressive targets and accept trade-off in measurement accuracy by reducing intervals.

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## Conclusion

### Summary

✅ **Critical Success**: analyze_all.py achieves 2.145s (target: 2.5s) with excellent parallel efficiency

⚠️ **Performance Issues**: 4 scripts exceed targets, primarily due to:
- **CPU measurement blocking** (2s interval in analyze_cpu.py)
- **Thermal sensor access delays** (~1s for SMC reads)
- **Monitor timeout** (duration parameter handling)

🎯 **Optimization Potential**:
- With CPU interval optimization: 60-70% improvement possible
- With thermal caching: 25-30% improvement possible
- Total potential: analyze_all.py could reach sub-1s with aggressive optimization

### Next Steps

1. **Investigate** analyze_cpu.py blocking interval
2. **Profile** thermal sensor access patterns
3. **Fix** monitor.py duration handling
4. **Decide** target adjustment vs accuracy trade-off
5. **Implement** recommended optimizations
6. **Re-benchmark** after changes

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*Generated: 2025-11-30*
*Benchmark Data: performance-benchmark-20251130-194517.json*
