| PYBOOTCHARTGUI | |
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| pybootchartgui is a tool (now included as part of bootchart2) 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 | |
| This code was originally hosted at: | |
| http://code.google.com/p/pybootchartgui/ |