Show HN: React Geiger – performance profiling using sound

Yes, for network related activity. Peep.

https://github.com/the-real-neil/peep

Previously discussed on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33017337

Relevant to the auditory monitoring is my project called sysm: https://github.com/jafarlihi/sysm

It gives you a framework for configuring such audio pieces.

A plugin for graphana or datadog/similar would be amazing. a ping at one frequency for a request hitting the load balancer, a ping at a different frequencies for a request hitting a given endpoint, a bloop for a request hitting Kafka/the queue, a tone that lasts for as long as the job takes to process the job. a bong for a request hitting the db lasting as long as the query takes. the combined cacofony of sound would grow to feel comfortable when the site is properly operational. and then, with it just sitting open in the background, if something is off, someone could immediately tell without sitting there watching graphs when their brain subconsciously says something happened to the usual pitter patter of the machine operating.

There's a small "settings" button to the left of the URL. Click it, and if it shows Sound already, enable it. Otherwise, click "Site settings" and enable it from that list.

I couldn't get it working in Edge, Firefox, or Safari. Eventually got it working in Chrome following the instructions already provided

So what?

A more pleasant sound (not replicating a literal Geiger counter) would be more useful imo.

Thank you! The only concern is that it adds overhead as well, but it doesn't seem to be too bad.

And later, when computers weren't so slow but still required multiple fans and HDDs (using real metal discs!) you got an auditory indication of resource utilisation. I do wonder what we'll say in the future when we look back at computers from this time - perhaps it won't be so much an auditory clue, but the subtle feel of one's phone getting warm in your hand when it is running all cores at full clock?

With my speaker setup I always had slight gpu coil whine from gpu usage.

This has helped me a few times to figure out if the gpu is doing any work at all when trying to figure out why something in ie pytorch is slow.

That's pretty cool! Do you still happen to have it somewhere? How did you do the detection?

Thank you! It was just thinking of ways to get notified of unnecessary re-renders in a way that would be tolerable to have enabled most of the time. Polluting the console or showing visual cues didn't really fit that, so this came up.