Bug#105587: RFP: pcp

[Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

<URL:http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/>

>From the above URL:

 Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is a framework and services to support
 system-level performance monitoring and performance management.

 The services offered by PCP are especially attractive for those
 tackling harder system-level performance problems. For example this
 may involve a transient performance degradation, or correlating
 end-user quality of service with platform activity, or diagnosing
 some complex interaction between resource demands on a single system,
 or management of performance on large systems with lots of "moving
 parts".

The news page mentioned that someone had made Debian packages, but the
URL to them was broken.  It might be worth looking into trying to find
the packager and/or his/her packages.

I haven't actually tried this software, but it looks cool, and the
stuff from SGI is generally high-quality.

There is also a neato looking GTK+ frontend at

<URL:http://k332.feld.cvut.cz/~lemming/projects/pcpmon.html>

that looks like it would also be worth packaging.