Re: Performance Co-Pilot

[Troy Dawson <dawson@xxxxxxxx>]

I am not an official person to answer most of these questions, but I am a 
user, so I figure I'll just say a few things.

Although there might be some metrics that don't work on RedHat 7.3, I haven't 
found them.  (I use what I use, and what I don't, I don't)  I recompiled the 
rpm and it's working fine.

As far as lack of noise on this mailing list ... well ... it's working just 
the way I want it, so I haven't had to say anthing.  I do pipe up every now 
and then.
I actually haven't lookad at the archives, but I've gotten 77 messages since 
January of this year on this mailling list, so there obviously are people 
here.  It's definatly not as much as alot of lists, but definatly not 
completely dead.

Troy

Davis, Todd C wrote:
> 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
>
> These are my opinions and absolutely **not** official opinions of Intel 
> Corp.
>
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