Re: [Announce] pybootchartgui

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Chris Wilson wrote:
> 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 ;-)

I have been thinking along the same lines.  With systemtap user-space probing
finally arriving, there's a lot of opportunities that we need to explore.

behdad



> cc'ing Soeren for his opinion.
> -ickle
> 
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