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[Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:47:01AM -0300, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo wrote:
> >> > > 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.

OK, added smemstat to the seed.  I'm not sure which other tools we want
included, I guess they can be added as they're identified.

Thanks,
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