ITAP: SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.2.0 now available
The license (which is in the download directory of the FTP server and
presumably in the source package as well) is GPL 2.1.
This package is a very powerful and exciting way of measuring performance of
a network of machines. If used correctly it can allow you to visualise the
way that load on one machine correlates with load on another. For example
you could view web hits, disk access, and CPU load of all machines and notice
that a high rate of web hits means lots of disk access on the web servers and
CPU usage on the database server!
However I believe that this package requires more time than I have available
and that I can't do it on my own without neglecting my work on other packages.
So I am announcing my intention to assist in packaging PCP. I will test it,
assist in debugging it, and upload the result if the packager is not yet a
Debian developer.
I think that this would be a good opportunity for a new developer to learn
about packaging. Recently some people have expressed interest in joining the
Debian project but not had any definate plans for what to package, this might
be something for them to investigate.
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Subject: [linuxperf] [ANNOUNCE] SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.2.0 now available
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:37:27 +1000 (EST)
From: Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
To: pcp@oss.sgi.com, linuxperf@nl.linux.org, Beowulf@beowulf.org.com
SGI is pleased to announce the new version of Performance Co-Pilot (PCP)
open source (version 2.2.0-18) is now available for download from
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/download
PCP is an extensible system monitoring package with a client/server
architecture. It provides a distributed unifying abstraction for all
interesting performance statistics in /proc and assorted applications
(e.g. Apache). The PCP library APIs are robust and well documented,
supporting rapid deployment of new and diverse sources of performance
data and the development of sophisticated performance monitoring tools.
There are binary RPMs for ia32 and ia64, the source RPM and tar.gz files.
The source should also build and work for Linux-ppc, Linux-alpha and
most other Linux platforms.
The PCP homepage is at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp and you can join
the PCP mailing list via http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/mail.html
This release (2.2.0-18) adds five new PCP agents and associated runtime
libraries, many new metrics, numerous important build and bug fixes
(particularly for IA64) and a large number of small changes as we merged
and reconciled the IRIX and open source trees.
SGI would like to thank those who contributed to this release, especially
Michal Kara, Laurent Demailly, Alan Baily, Alexander L. Belikoff, the SGI
PCP engineering team, and others.
A list of changes since the last open source release (which was version
2.1.10, released 20-Oct-2000) is in /usr/doc/pcp-2.2.0/CHANGELOG after
installation, or at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/latest.html
Thanks and enjoy!
-- Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
SGI Engineering
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