Re: [pcp] GSOC 2016 idea for PCP

[Charles Cui <charles.cui1984@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lukas Berk,

 ÂFollowing your advices, I build PCP from source on an Ubuntu system, and went through a part of the document. PCP project provides a great document, which answers all of my questions in the build. The whole process is smooth. However, I have one specific question about the task: I found that PCP agents (pmdas) are domain related. So, basically you have different agents for different parts of the system. You can have agent for the kernel or agent for the database. My question is which agent(s) should I focus during the project? Do you have specific targets? I plan to look at the current implementation and prepare for possible challenges.Â

Thanks, Charles. Â

2016-03-03 10:18 GMT-08:00 Charles Cui <charles.cui1984@xxxxxxxxx>:

2016-03-03 7:46 GMT-08:00 Lukas Berk <lberk@xxxxxxxxxx>:

Hi Charles,

Charles Cui <charles.cui1984@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
[...]
> Thanks for your reply! To answer your question. Yes, I have been
> selected in GSoC 2014
> and successfully complete the project. Also thanks for providing such
> a great document.

Nice! Was that the Plan9 project?

> I will read it carefully. By the way, is it enough to familiar with
> the documents for the current phase?
> Let me know if you want some initial work to be done for this period.

I would also recommend trying to build and install pcp from source[1] to
start, and perhaps even running the testsuite. What OS do you typically
use? (if possible, I would suggest starting with a popular linux distro,
it's a bit more simple to setup the build dependencies).

Check out the INSTALL file, specifically the 'B. Building From Source'
section, where I'd recommend the Makepkgs approach. Please feel free to
let me know if you run into any issues at all!

Great! I will start to run PCP locally on ubuntu. I am sure there will beÂ

some issues for this project from me. I will let the community know. Â

Cheers,

Lukas

[1] - git://pcp.io/pcp/pcp.git