Re: [Announce] pybootchartgui

[Chris Wilson <chris chris-wilson co uk>]

On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 11:46 +0100, Anders Norgaard wrote:
> Behdad asked here and on his blog[1] for a python version of bootchart
> that would be hackable and extendable for more startup profiling
> tasks.
> 
> Now Henning Niss and I have such a port in a working state. The code
> has been reduced from ~3k to ~1k SLOC in the port to python.
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/pybootchartgui/
> 
> It reads the same files as the original bootchart and it has been
> tested on Ubuntu and Fedora.
> 
> We happily accept feature requests and patches.

That does look good, and it looks like it should be complementary to
using sysprof for inspecting whole-system activity. So how difficult
will it be to extend sysprof to both capture and display the same
information? I'm hoping that with the tracing frameworks being developed
within the kernel, we can now access all the profiling information
without additional modules, and so it should just be a matter of
integration. (I'm aiming for understatement of the year ;-)

cc'ing Soeren for his opinion.
-ickle