poky/scripts/pybootchartgui/README
Robert Yang 3d78bc19c5 pybootchartgui: add the original code
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>
2012-06-15 15:12:42 +01:00

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		    PYBOOTCHARTGUI
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pybootchartgui is a tool for visualization and analysis of the GNU/Linux boot process. It renders the output of the boot-logger tool bootchart (see http://www.bootchart.org/) to either the screen or files of various formats. Bootchart collects information about the processes, their dependencies, and resource consumption during boot of a GNU/Linux system. The pybootchartgui tools visualizes the process tree and overall resource utilization.

pybootchartgui is a port of the visualization part of bootchart from Java to Python and Cairo.

Adapted from the bootchart-documentation:

The CPU and disk statistics are used to render stacked area and line charts. The process information is used to create a Gantt chart showing process dependency, states and CPU usage.

A typical boot sequence consists of several hundred processes. Since it is difficult to visualize such amount of data in a comprehensible way, tree pruning is utilized. Idle background processes and short-lived processes are removed. Similar processes running in parallel are also merged together.

Finally, the performance and dependency charts are rendered as a single image to either the screen or in PNG, PDF or SVG format.

To get help for pybootchartgui, run

$ pybootchartgui --help

http://code.google.com/p/pybootchartgui/