diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 057fe9e..0000000
--- a/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-kaproxy/nginx
-kasvc/keepalive-svc
-PROFILE.LOG
-PROFILE.LOG.old
diff --git a/kaclient/Dockerfile b/kaclient/Dockerfile
index 7086e3b..386b1a7 100644
--- a/kaclient/Dockerfile
+++ b/kaclient/Dockerfile
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 FROM archlinux:latest
 
-RUN pacman -Sy git base-devel curl luajit unzip --noconfirm
-
-RUN git clone https://github.com/wg/wrk
-WORKDIR /wrk
-RUN make
-WORKDIR /
+RUN pacman -Sy curl --noconfirm
 
 COPY run.sh /
 CMD ["/run.sh"]
diff --git a/kaclient/run.sh b/kaclient/run.sh
index f4d5942..6747bc4 100755
--- a/kaclient/run.sh
+++ b/kaclient/run.sh
@@ -1,42 +1,28 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-function log_request_to () {
+log_request () {
 	return_code=$(curl -Sikl -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" $1 2>/dev/null)
 	case ${return_code:0:1} in
 		"4" | "5")
 			echo "query of $1 returned $return_code"
-			return 1
 			;;
 		*)
-			return 0
 			;;
 	esac
 }
 
-function do_wrk_on () {
-	/wrk/wrk -t1 -c10 $1 &
-}
+while :
+do
+	log_request "https://kaproxy:8080/0"
+	log_request "https://kaproxy:8080/1"
+	log_request "https://kaproxy:8080/2"
+	log_request "https://kaproxy:8080/3"
+	log_request "https://kaproxy:8080/4"
+	log_request "https://kaproxy:8080/5"
+	log_request "https://kaproxy:8080/6"
+	log_request "https://kaproxy:8080/7"
+	log_request "https://kaproxy:8080/8"
+	log_request "https://kaproxy:8080/9"
+done
 
-function sigint_handler() {
-	jobs -p | xargs kill -9
-	exit
-}
-
-trap 'sigint_handler' INT
-
-// TODO: make this a more elegant item
-// maybe a while loop with curl
-sleep 0.5
-
-do_wrk_on "https://kaproxy:8080/0"
-do_wrk_on "https://kaproxy:8080/1"
-do_wrk_on "https://kaproxy:8080/2"
-do_wrk_on "https://kaproxy:8080/3"
-do_wrk_on "https://kaproxy:8080/4"
-do_wrk_on "https://kaproxy:8080/5"
-do_wrk_on "https://kaproxy:8080/6"
-do_wrk_on "https://kaproxy:8080/7"
-do_wrk_on "https://kaproxy:8080/8"
-do_wrk_on "https://kaproxy:8080/9"
-
-wait $(jobs -p)
+# TODO: use wrk2 or something to stress test endpoints I dunno
diff --git a/kaproxy/Dockerfile b/kaproxy/Dockerfile
index 2af70c2..7ba2843 100644
--- a/kaproxy/Dockerfile
+++ b/kaproxy/Dockerfile
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ FROM archlinux:latest
 EXPOSE 8080
 
 RUN pacman -Syyu --noconfirm
-RUN pacman -S base-devel glibc gcc-libs valgrind --noconfirm
+RUN pacman -S base-devel glibc gcc-libs perf --noconfirm
 COPY nginx /nginx
 WORKDIR /nginx
 RUN auto/configure \
 	--with-debug \
 	--with-http_ssl_module \
-	--with-cc-opt="-gdwarf-4 -fno-omit-frame-pointer"
+	--with-cc-opt="-ggdb -fno-omit-frame-pointer"
 RUN make
 RUN make install
 COPY nginx.conf /
diff --git a/kaproxy/nginx b/kaproxy/nginx
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..64d0795
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kaproxy/nginx
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 64d0795ac41836b6be8fcceba68f1dbb62b4035a
diff --git a/kaproxy/nginx.conf b/kaproxy/nginx.conf
index 75ae67d..d86499c 100644
--- a/kaproxy/nginx.conf
+++ b/kaproxy/nginx.conf
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-worker_processes 10;
+worker_processes 5;
 error_log /dev/stdout notice;
 pid /tmp/pid;
 
 events {
-	worker_connections 10;
+	worker_connections 20;
 }
 
 http {
diff --git a/kaproxy/run.sh b/kaproxy/run.sh
index 6f236d7..89f8203 100755
--- a/kaproxy/run.sh
+++ b/kaproxy/run.sh
@@ -1,23 +1,20 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 function p_invoke() {
-	# set trace-children=yes to profile worker processes
-	valgrind --tool=callgrind                         \
-		--trace-children=no                           \
-		--callgrind-out-file=/tmp/callgrind.output    \
-		/nginx/objs/nginx                             \
-			-p /tmp                                   \
-			-e /tmp/error.log                         \
-			-c /nginx.conf                            \
+	perf record -F1000 --call-graph dwarf -o /perf.data \
+		-- /nginx/objs/nginx \
+			-p /tmp \
+			-e /tmp/error.log \
+			-c /nginx.conf \
 			-g "daemon off;"
 }
 
 function invoke() {
-	/nginx/objs/nginx     \
-		-p /tmp           \
-		-e /tmp/error.log \
-		-c /nginx.conf    \
-		-g "daemon off;"  \
+	/nginx/objs/nginx    \
+		-p /tmp          \
+		-e /tmp/error.log   \
+		-c /nginx.conf   \
+		-g "daemon off;" \
 		$@
 }
 
diff --git a/run.sh b/run.sh
index e7f4e42..51ead12 100755
--- a/run.sh
+++ b/run.sh
@@ -1,63 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/zsh
-
-if [[ ! $1 ]]; then 
-	echo "Error: expected one argument (nginx code directory)"
-	exit
-fi
-
-if [[ ! -d $1 ]]; then
-	echo "Error: provided nginx code directory is invalid"
-	exit
-fi
-
-PROFILE_OUTPUT=PROFILE.LOG
-if [ -f $PROFILE_OUTPUT ]; then
-	mv $PROFILE_OUTPUT $PROFILE_OUTPUT.old
-fi
-
-KACLIENT=nginx-profile-setup-kaclient-1
-KAPROXY=nginx-profile-setup-kaproxy-1
-
-echo "[+] building and deploying containers"
 go build keepalive-svc.go
 mv keepalive-svc kasvc/
-rsync -avz $1 kaproxy/
-sudo docker-compose up --build -d
-sudo docker exec -it $KAPROXY callgrind_control -i off
-
-sudo docker wait $KACLIENT
-echo "[+] client finished, triggering reload"
-sudo docker exec -it $KAPROXY callgrind_control -i on
-sudo docker kill -s CONT $KAPROXY
-
-echo "[+] wait five seconds for reload complete"
-sleep 5
-sudo docker exec -it $KAPROXY callgrind_control -i off
-
-echo "    > restarting client"
-sudo docker-compose restart kaclient
-sudo docker wait $KACLIENT
-
-echo "[+] client finished again. Killing NGINX and fetching profile data"
-sudo docker kill -s INT $KAPROXY
-sudo docker exec -it $KAPROXY callgrind_control -d
-
-echo "[+] building profiling report"
-sudo docker exec $KAPROXY bash -c "find /tmp -iname \"callgrind.out*\"" | while read file
-do
-	echo "    > processing: " $file
-	F=$(basename $file)
-	sudo docker cp $KAPROXY:$file $F;
-	sudo chmod 777 $F
-	echo "Output file: $F" >> $PROFILE_OUTPUT
-	callgrind_annotate \
-		--include=kaproxy \
-		--auto=yes \
-		$F >> $PROFILE_OUTPUT
-	echo "End of profile: $F\n\n\n" >> $PROFILE_OUTPUT
-	rm -f $F
-done
-
-echo "[+] cleaning up"
-sudo docker-compose down
-less $PROFILE_OUTPUT
+rsync -avz ../nginx kaproxy/
+sudo docker-compose up --build