Re: Bug#613986: ITP: run -- tool for sampling time and memory usage
On pe, 2011-02-18 at 18:30 +0100, Thomas Krennwallner wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Thomas Krennwallner <tkren@kr.tuwien.ac.at>
>
>
> * Package name : run
> Version : 1.4
> Upstream Author : Armin Biere <biere@jku.at> and Toni Jussila
> * URL : http://fmv.jku.at/run/
> * License : BSD
> Programming Lang: C
> Description : tool for sampling time and memory usage
>
> run is a tool for sampling time and memory usage of a program and its
> children using the proc file system of Linux. Time and space limits
> are also supported. It is very helpful for benchmarking and running
> competitions. It also supports limits on wall clock time and thus can
> control runs of multi-threaded programs on multi-core machines as
> well.
This sounds like a very interesting tool to me, since I've been wanting
to write something similar myself. I look forward to seeing it in the
archive.
However, the name is perhaps a tad generic. Would it be possible for you
to rename it in Debian to something less generic?
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