Thursday 14 May 2009

Bootchart

Bootchart is a tool for performance analysis and visualization of the GNU/Linux boot process.


Get bootchart http://www.bootchart.org/download.html
# bunzip2 bootchart-0.9.tar.bz2
# tar xvf bootchart-0.9.tar
# cd bootchart-0.9
# ./install.sh
# vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
change default=0 which is "title Bootchart logging"
# bootchartd init
# reboot


For compiling image processing
wget ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/fedora/releases/10/Everything/i386/os/Packages/libgcj-src-4.3.2-7.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh libgcj-src-4.3.2-7.i386.rpm
# yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=alteredupdate,alteredbase,dag install ant.i386


# cd bootchart-0.9
run for java compiling
# ant

Run bootchart to get your image
# java -jar bootchart.jar
Parsing /var/log/bootchart.tgz
Wrote image: ./bootchart.png


Here is my boot process image fedora 10 running on Vmware

1 comment:

Unknown said...

interesting, nice and also available for solaris, but unfortunately not available for aix.