Mike,
I
have started looking at SGI's Performance Co-Pilot for possible use in
the Carrier Grade Linux Enhancements, see http://developer.osdl.org/projects/.
I am somewhat concerned with the lack of activity PCP is experiencing both from
SGI and in the Linux community. Red Hat has not picked up the project but SUSE
apparently has along with the only open source GUI available for PCP. From what
few hits search engines have found was the IBM patches that you have posted. IBM
does not list Performance Co-Pilot as a project but has these patches available.
How does IBM distribute PCP? Do you roll your own RPM? Can one download a PCP tarball
and/or RPMs form IBM?
My initial investigations into PCP today turned up some
problems with PCP on RedHat 7.3. The last release from SGI does not build an
RPM on RedHat 7.3 correctly. Also the man pages only work from the command line
but khelpcenter and man2html choke on the man pages from SGI. The source builds
and installs but some metrics don't appear to be correct. Does IBM or SGI
have any test suites to validate the PCP utilities, daemons, and programming
interfaces?
Is there an active maintainer for PCP? Do you have any
insight into SGI's plans for PCP? They apparently GPL'ed the code
in hopes of getting Linux community participation that has not materialized. Is
this the reason why there is not any mailing list activity, new releases, or
announcements since December 2001?
Todd C. Davis
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