Re: [Xenomai-core] [RFC] collecting xenomai statistics

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>]

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Niklaus Giger wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Following a suggestion from Philippe Gerum I propose to collect and prepare 
> like this:
> 
> a) Make it easy to collect information
> 
> add -s/-c option to xeno-test, help text would look like 
> -s         send output of xeno-test to xeno-stat@domain.hid
> -c <name>  if -s, send also kernel config file to xeno-stat@domain.hid
> (May be patch xeno-config to emit also the revision of the svn checkout?)
> 
> b) Setup an e-mail account xeno-stat@domain.hid.
> 
> c) Add a archiver which generates daily a gzipped tar file of all messages 
> ever sent to xeno-stat@domain.hid (e.g. of its mbox). Make it available 
> somewhere on the internet.
> 
> d) Write a converter the raw messages into more suitable representation, eg. a 
> MySQL-DB, a spreadsheet format. Extract the raw message and kernel config and 
> store the publicly accessible on the internet. The DB/spreadsheet will 
> contain pointers (URLs) to the raw message/kernel config.
> 
> e) Write viewers which present interesting statistics. E.g. X/HTML pages to 
> present a ordered (by architecture, board, version, etc) view of the 
> available  results.

Do you know http://issaris.org/rtai (the RTAI LiveCD)? It's no longer
maintained but may still contain useful ideas, and Takis (Panagiotis
Issaris) will likely be happy to answer questions on details of his
approach.

> 
> I would like to advance like this:
> 
> I am not interested in step a), as it is easy for me just to write a trivial 
> script to sent the xeno-test output to any address. Also adding the revision 
> of svn checkout is not very difficult.
> 
> For point b+c) I am lacking the necessary rights, but it easy for me to setup 
> a similar account for my tests here. But I would appreciate, if somebody of 
> the core team would help me to get this work done.
> 
> For point d+e) I will (after a week of vacation with my son) invest some work. 
> But I would be very interested in knowing exactly which kind of information 
> the core developers are interested in. How should it be presented? In tabular 
> form? Graphs, which ones? And kind of feedback will be evaluated and 
> integrated.
> 

I think starting with what Takis once collected would be more than
enough for a first round.

I cannot provide you access to the infrastructure, but I vote for
granting it. Great commitment!

Jan


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