SGI is pleased to announce the new version of Performance Co-Pilot (PCP)
open source (version 2.1.7-2) is now available for download from
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/download
There are binary RPMS for ia32 and ia64, the source RPM and tar.gz files.
The source is also known build and work for Linux-ppc and Linux-alpha.
The PCP homepage is at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp and you can join
the PCP mailing list via http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/mail.html
Changes since the last public release (2.1.4) include :-
Adjustments to tolerate SuSE's location of magic file (different
than Redhat's) and the lack of chkconfig on SuSE, migration of all
__clone use to pthreads to improve portability (especially to IA64),
support for RAID disk stats and devfs-style SCSI disk names, new XFS
metrics extracted from /proc/fs/xfs/stat, NFS (version 3) metrics,
use of -Wall in CFLAGS, and numerous bug fixes.
To use the new XFS metrics, obviously you need a kernel that supports
XFS - see http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cvs_download.html or join the
XFS mailing list via http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/mail.html
In addition, there is a new PCP monitoring tool available "PCPMON"
from Michal Kara http://freshmeat.net/appindex/2000/05/15/958381663.html
and a new PCP agent for MYSQL Databases, also from Michal.
SGI would be delighted to hear from anyone wanting to contribute to the
PCP project (especially new monitoring tools), and will provide technical
assistance getting your project off the ground.
thanks
-- Mark Goodwin
SGI Engineering
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