The license (which is in the download directory of the FTP server and presumably in the source package as well) is GPL 2.1.
This package is a very powerful and exciting way of measuring performance of a network of machines. If used correctly it can allow you to visualise the way that load on one machine correlates with load on another. For example you could view web hits, disk access, and CPU load of all machines and notice that a high rate of web hits means lots of disk access on the web servers and CPU usage on the database server! However I believe that this package requires more time than I have available and that I can't do it on my own without neglecting my work on other packages. So I am announcing my intention to assist in packaging PCP. I will test it, assist in debugging it, and upload the result if the packager is not yet a Debian developer. I think that this would be a good opportunity for a new developer to learn about packaging. Recently some people have expressed interest in joining the Debian project but not had any definate plans for what to package, this might be something for them to investigate. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [linuxperf] [ANNOUNCE] SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.2.0 now available Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:37:27 +1000 (EST) From: Mark Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] SGI is pleased to announce the new version of Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) open source (version 2.2.0-18) is now available for download from http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/download PCP is an extensible system monitoring package with a client/server architecture. It provides a distributed unifying abstraction for all interesting performance statistics in /proc and assorted applications (e.g. Apache). The PCP library APIs are robust and well documented, supporting rapid deployment of new and diverse sources of performance data and the development of sophisticated performance monitoring tools. There are binary RPMs for ia32 and ia64, the source RPM and tar.gz files. The source should also build and work for Linux-ppc, Linux-alpha and most other Linux platforms. The PCP homepage is at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp and you can join the PCP mailing list via http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/mail.html This release (2.2.0-18) adds five new PCP agents and associated runtime libraries, many new metrics, numerous important build and bug fixes (particularly for IA64) and a large number of small changes as we merged and reconciled the IRIX and open source trees. SGI would like to thank those who contributed to this release, especially Michal Kara, Laurent Demailly, Alan Baily, Alexander L. Belikoff, the SGI PCP engineering team, and others. A list of changes since the last open source release (which was version 2.1.10, released 20-Oct-2000) is in /usr/doc/pcp-2.2.0/CHANGELOG after installation, or at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/latest.html Thanks and enjoy! -- Mark Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SGI Engineering - Linuxperf: Working list for the Linux Performance tuning site Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linuxperf/ Web site: http://linuxperf.nl.linux.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
