[csw-pkgsubmissions] /newpkgs (current) dnstop, pcp

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Wed Mar 17 08:37:33 CET 2010


Hi,

Am 16.03.2010 um 21:24 schrieb Sebastian Kayser:
> * Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org 
>> > wrote:
>>>> ... and even if pcp is renamed to
>>> something that people who want pcp definitely will not look for it
>>> still doesn't help Debian people thinking they will get Performance
>>> Copilot since we don't have that. And we probably never will either
>>> since it's geared (as far as I can tell) towards Linux and we have  
>>> the
>>> excellent DTrace instead.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry about that :-}   But after reviewing the above facts, I do
>> believe that our users would be best served in having "pcp" be the
>> more widely known "performance co-pilot".
>
> FWIW: Before this thread I have never ever heard about performance
> co-pilot. OTOH I have used the pcp script (downloaded manually) on
> various occassions.
>
> Speaking from the viewpoint of a Solaris sysadmin.

I suggest packaging the Performance Co-Pilot as CSWpcptoolkit
with abbreviated components CSWpcpt(web|agent|...) and
pid-con-port as pcp. For the cause of argumentation I also
go with Sebastian.


Best regards

   -- Dago


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