BOOTCHART2(1) General Commands Manual BOOTCHART2(1)
NAME
bootchart2 - collects and analyses data from boot process
DESCRIPTION
bootchart2 is a tool to log the boot process and make a nice graph out of it, to usually see where it takes longer.
It consists of three different pieces of software: a shell script, a collector and a visualisation tool.
Please also see the manual pages referred to in the SEE ALSO section.
CONFIGURATION
After install simply add these options to your kernel command line, normally in /boot/grub/menu.lst:
initcall_debug printk.time=y quiet init=/sbin/bootchartd ...
Then after bootup run pybootchartgui to get an interactive chart rendering tool. If you want to chart the initrd, add
rdinitrd=/sbin/bootchartd
to the kernel command line.
To make bootchart2 work best, please ensure your kernel is configured with CONFIG_PROC_EVENTS=y and CONFIG_TASKSTATS=y
If you want to start bootchart2 in a dracut (version >= 008) initramfs, you have to change init=/sbin/bootchartd to rdinit=/sbin/bootchartd
and regenerate the initramfs with bootchart support with:
# dracut -f -a bootchart
SEE ALSO
pybootchartgui(1), bootchartd(1)
AUTHOR
bootchart2 was written by:
Anders Norgaard <anders.norgaard@gmail.com>
Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com>
Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Henning Niss <henningniss@gmail.com>
Riccardo Magliocchetti <riccardo.magliocchetti@gmail.com>
This manual page was written by Francesca Ciceri <madamezou@yahoo.it>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others), and is licensed
under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or, at your choice, any later version.
2011-03-07 BOOTCHART2(1)
