On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@ubuntu.com> 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 -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp