ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Ricardo Salveti de Araujo <ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Steve Langasek
<steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 11:22:25AM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>
>> Am Mittwoch, den 04.06.2014, 11:07 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek:
>> > Hi Colin,
>
>> > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 06:44:08PM +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
>
>> > > I suggest trying out smemstat which is my in my PPA: ppa:colin-king/white
>
>> > > see: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/smemstat/
>
>> > > one can run this with a suitable delay and capture any memory changes
>> > > over a specified number of iterations.  The data can be also output to a
>> > > JSON formatted file for later processing and analysis.
>
>> > Are you targeting smemstat for inclusion in Ubuntu for utopic?  Should we
>> > consider including smemstat in the phone images, so that we have it to hand
>> > for debugging when we need it?
>
>> we discussed these tools at the sprint and I took a TODO home with me to
>> implement proper script wrappers around these tools in the phablet-tools
>> suite (i.e. resulting in phablet-memtest, phablet-powertest etc) so we
>> can have properly comparable reports from a combination of pre defined
>> test runs ... eventually these tools will then be integrated in the
>> smoke testing suite. I will announce it here once we have something
>> usable ....
>
> But putting them into the smoketest suite doesn't give them to us in the
> image, correct?  So this would still limit our ability to use them for
> opportunistic debugging.
>
> Given that these tools are all (AIUI) small, it would be nice to have them
> there.  You never know when you're going to need to debug an issue, and if
> you have to remount rw and install a .deb to catch it, it may be too late.

+1 to have them pre-installed as well.

These tools are small and quite useful for debugging.

Cheers,
-- 
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo