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| author | Marco Cecchetti <mrc.ildp@gmail.com> | 2010-05-12 23:33:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-05-12 23:33:21 +0200 |
| commit | 04b831eeaeac8a803e1a90ec84201255964b86ef (patch) | |
| tree | 6ce4c293cc8e02071389a8b1528553794f0bd7b3 /system/bootchart/README | |
| parent | 6f4c95667119ea9c55937d38b139974966360b0c (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-04b831eeaeac8a803e1a90ec84201255964b86ef.tar.gz | |
system/bootchart: Added to 12.2 repository
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diff --git a/system/bootchart/README b/system/bootchart/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a4b281b7ab --- /dev/null +++ b/system/bootchart/README @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Bootchart provides a shell script to be run by the kernel in the init phase. +The script will run in background and collect process information, CPU +statistics and disk usage statistics from the /proc file system. +The performance data are stored in memory and are written to disk once the +boot process completes. + +The boot log file is later processed using a Java application which builds +the process tree and renders a performance chart in different formats (png, +svg, eps). + +This requires apache-ant, and you need the jdk package from /extra installed. + +After installation, to run bootchartd append the following boot option: + init=/sbin/bootchartd +You may want to edit your lilo configuration file. Also note that this will +not work if run from a kernel using an initrd - you must use one of the +huge* kernels (or a custom kernel). |