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> > Hmm, this looks alot like -T with a relative end point. So, we should
> > not need neither of these (-R / -W) options ...?
>
> hmm, good point, I saw messages in the past time window options not
> being supported with other than archives but I was probably using
> something like -S or -T @10:00 at that time and mistakenly thought -T 2s
> is not supported either. -R is used by pmcollectl and -T by pmnewlog for
> this so -W is certainly not optimal.
Yeah - pmcollectl is also trying to mimic upstream collectl arguments
as much as it can, rather than follow pcp conventions.
> Agreed, but I haven't been able to run pmrep QA tests on my system so
> far (as non-root). I would have hoped something like configure && make
> && make install && check 1069 would have worked but it seemed not to be
That should work (well, "cd qa" before "./check 1069")...
> the case. Any guidance on this area would be helpful.
(send thru details of what failed?)
See qa/README too, but all QA testing must be run as non-root, though
sudo access is required by many of the tests.
cheers.
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Nathan
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