[gentoo-user] Collecting bootchart files after boot

[gentoo-user] Collecting bootchart files after boot

[felix]

I have been collecting bootchart info for each boot, curiousity and no
more.  It is interesting sometimes to look at them and see if minor
tweaks can change things, but I have no serious use for the data.
Thus it took me a while to realize that the .png and .tgz files are
not generated until rc has finished the boot, which is after
local.start has run.  I have code in local.start to save the current
bootchart.* files in a time-stamped dir for each boot, and they are
all off by one.  It is more amusing than alarming.

I understand why this happens.  Is there any way to automatically run
a script like local.start but after rc finishes?  I had thought of
putting something in local.stop to copy the current bootchart.* files,
but that smells a bit too kludgery.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting bootchart files after boot

[W.Kenworthy]

untried:

create another init.d script with an "after local.start" parameter - I
think this works

use a batch file to do the saving which includes a sleep command, then
trigger it from local.start using nohup - this has worked for me in the
past.

Billk

On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 17:49 -0700, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> I have been collecting bootchart info for each boot, curiousity and no
> more.  It is interesting sometimes to look at them and see if minor
> tweaks can change things, but I have no serious use for the data.
> Thus it took me a while to realize that the .png and .tgz files are
> not generated until rc has finished the boot, which is after
> local.start has run.  I have code in local.start to save the current
> bootchart.* files in a time-stamped dir for each boot, and they are
> all off by one.  It is more amusing than alarming.
> 
> I understand why this happens.  Is there any way to automatically run
> a script like local.start but after rc finishes?  I had thought of
> putting something in local.stop to copy the current bootchart.* files,
> but that smells a bit too kludgery.
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting bootchart files after boot

[felix]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:09:24AM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> untried:
> 
> create another init.d script with an "after local.start" parameter - I
> think this works

Didn't try it because init.d/local says "after *" and that might lead
to some kind of infinite loop or at least confusion.

> use a batch file to do the saving which includes a sleep command, then
> trigger it from local.start using nohup - this has worked for me in the
> past.

This does, but a 20 second sleep wasn't enough and it only copied part
of the .png which was apparently being generated as my script ran.

It does work, and I will leave it that way with a longer sleep, but I
hope there's a better way :-)

Thanks

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Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting bootchart files after boot

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:49:57 -0700, felix@crowfix.com wrote:

> I understand why this happens.  Is there any way to automatically run
> a script like local.start but after rc finishes?  I had thought of
> putting something in local.stop to copy the current bootchart.* files,
> but that smells a bit too kludgery.

Unless you're in the habit of crashing the system, and not running
local.stop, this should work fine. Alternatively, run it from your
desktop if this is possible. Put in in your main user's .xinirc or, if
you use KDE, in ~/.kde/Autostart.


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