Software Update: Bootchart 0.8

Bootchart was developed in response to a challenge by Owen Taylor on the Fedora development mailing list. This program makes a visual analysis of the performance during the Linux boot process. The results can be rendered as png, svg or eps. For more information you can the documentation are read. Recently version 0.8 is available with the following release notes:

This release brings significant changes to the boot logger:

• top and iostat are no longer used; the logger gets all the necessary data from /proc directly (meaning more accurate information with less overhead).
• No more init script patching; the logger is started by the kernel in place of /sbin/init (and has to explicitly enabled in GRUB/LILO).
• Optional BSD process accounting v3 for detailed process dependency information.