BOOTCHARTD(1)						      General Commands Manual						     BOOTCHARTD(1)

NAME

       bootchartd - collects process information, CPU statistics and disk usage statistics

SYNOPSIS

       bootchartd [start|stop] [bootchart_init=INIT]

DESCRIPTION

       bootchartd  collects  process  information, CPU statistics and disk usage statistics from the /proc/ file system.  The accumulated log file
       may later be visualized using bootchart(1).

       bootchartd is commonly used to profile the boot process for the purpose of speeding it up.  In this case, it is started by  the	kernel	as
       the  init  process.  This is configured by adding the init=/sbin/bootchartd option to the kernel command line -- either interactively or by
       editing the bootloader's configuration file. Please refer to the documentation of your bootloader for details (e.g. lilo, grub or yaboot).

       After bootchartd is initialized during the boot process, it will start the default init process (/sbin/init) to proceed	with  the  regular
       bootup.	If, however, an alternative init process is used (e.g. (/sbin/initng), that process may be specified using the bootchart_init=INIT
       kernel command line parameter.

       Another possibility for using bootchartd is monitoring the resource usage of a specific application or the running system in  general.	In
       this case, bootchartd is started interactively by running bootchartd start and stopped using bootchartd stop.

FILES

       /var/log/bootchartd.tgz
	      default output file

       /etc/bootchartd.conf
	      default configuration file

SEE ALSO

       bootchart(1), bootchartd.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       bootchart was written by Ziga Mahkovec <ziga.mahkovec@klika.si>.

       This manual page was written by Jorg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								    2006-03-05							     BOOTCHARTD(1)