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BootChart

Page history last edited by Paul G. Taylor 15 years ago

 

Dean wrote : --

 

Post your bootchart!

by meandean on Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:58 am

To run it at boot time I would think you have to add it to the kernel line of you menu.lst file.

As far as using it to profile a running system(on debian):

1 - make a folder

mkdir tmp

2 - copy the configuration file to that folder

cp /etc/bootchartd.conf ~/tmp

3 - edit the configuration file and change the BOOTLOG_DEST to that folder

BOOTLOG_DEST=~/tmp/bootchart.tgz

4 - change to that directory

cd tmp/

5 - profile the system - for 5 seconds in this example

/sbin/bootchartd start; sleep 5; /sbin/bootchartd stop

6 - create your bootchart

bootchart bootchart.tgz -f png

7 - look in the tmp folder in your home directory for the boochart.png image

As far as using it to profile a application(on debian):

1 - make a folder

mkdir tmp

2 - copy the configuration file to that folder

cp /etc/bootchartd.conf ~/tmp

3 - edit the configuration file and change the BOOTLOG_DEST to that folder

BOOTLOG_DEST=~/tmp/bootchart.tgz

4 - change to that directory

cd tmp/

5 - profile the application - konqueror in this example

/sbin/bootchartd start konqueror

6 - create your bootchart

bootchart bootchart.tgz -f png

7 - look in the tmp folder in your home directory for the boochart.png image

Thats all folks...

 
Now, putting that all together into a script seems to be the way to go. So here goes ...
 
#!bootchart-script
## This script will run bootchart to profile your running system.
## Edit it before running to your preferences.
 
# Create a temporary directory in your home directory for this exercise.
# You may delete the directory after you have done with it.
mkdir ~/tmp     
# Change to the working directory.
cd ~/tmp/ 

 

# Copy the configurartion file into the working directory.
 
cp /etc/bootchartd.conf ~/tmp
 
## Edit the configuration file and change the BOOTLOG_DEST to that folder

BOOTLOG_DEST=~/tmp/bootchart.tgz

# I don't know how to do that within this script!
 
## Profile the system - for 5 seconds in this example

/sbin/bootchartd start; sleep 5; /sbin/bootchartd stop

 
## Create your bootchart

bootchart bootchart.tgz -f png

## Look in the tmp folder in your home directory for the boochart.png image

 
## Exit from this script
exit
 
Save the above as a test file, giving it a name with a suffix '.sh' .
 
     File, save as  "bootchart-script.sh"
 
Copy it to the /bin directory .
 
     sudo cp   /home/paul/Documents/MyScripts/bootchart-script.sh /bin/bootchart-script.sh
 
Make it executable.
 
     sudo chmod +rx /bin/bootchart-script.sh
 
Now you can run it with just the command : --
 
     bootchart-script.sh
 
 
 

 

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