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authorRobert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>2012-06-06 13:52:43 +0800
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This is from: http://pybootchartgui.googlecode.com/files/pybootchartgui-r124.tar.gz Will modify it to make the build profiling in pictures. Remove the examples since they would not work any more, and they cost much disk space. [YOCTO #2403] (From OE-Core rev: 1f0791109e1aed715f02945834d6d7fdb9a411b4) Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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1 PYBOOTCHARTGUI
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3
4pybootchartgui is a tool for visualization and analysis of the
5GNU/Linux boot process. It renders the output of the boot-logger tool
6bootchart (see http://www.bootchart.org/) to either the screen or
7files of various formats. Bootchart collects information about the
8processes, their dependencies, and resource consumption during boot of
9a GNU/Linux system. The pybootchartgui tools visualizes the process
10tree and overall resource utilization.
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12pybootchartgui is a port of the visualization part of bootchart from
13Java to Python and Cairo.
14
15Adapted from the bootchart-documentation:
16
17 The CPU and disk statistics are used to render stacked area and line
18 charts. The process information is used to create a Gantt chart
19 showing process dependency, states and CPU usage.
20
21 A typical boot sequence consists of several hundred processes. Since
22 it is difficult to visualize such amount of data in a comprehensible
23 way, tree pruning is utilized. Idle background processes and
24 short-lived processes are removed. Similar processes running in
25 parallel are also merged together.
26
27 Finally, the performance and dependency charts are rendered as a
28 single image to either the screen or in PNG, PDF or SVG format.
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31To get help for pybootchartgui, run
32
33$ pybootchartgui --help
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36http://code.google.com/p/pybootchartgui/