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[Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 10/06/14 19:09, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps the following tools could be also be considered worthy too:

health-check, cf http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/health-check/
eventstat, cf http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/eventstat/

These are both in Utopic, and are quite small tools and are useful for
smoke tests and for developers to check on system and application behaviour.

Colin

> 
> Thanks,
> 
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