Hello, 6 вересня 2009 о 10:21 +0200 Lucas Nussbaum написав(-ла): > It would be great to improve the description of systemtap-client/-server > to explain when they are useful.
With systemtap it is possible to compile probes locally using systemtap package and locally installed debuginfo and headers packages. It is also possible to compile probes on some other host that has systemtap-server running and matching debuginfo and headers. This way one does not need locally installed debuginfo and headers package, one also does not need gcc & co. and systemtap (only smaller -client and -runtime). So a lot of saved disk space, less installed packages. Server also signs modules and staprun can check those signatures. -client and -server can be used to run scripts on slow machines or ones with small amount of memory. One installs -client on the slow machine and -server on more powerful one (or emulator, for example for arm). Now, any ideas on how to integrate this into package descriptions are welcome. I'm not very good on writing descriptions, especially in English. Upstream .spec file uses these descriptions: Instrumentation System Client SystemTap client is the client component of an instrumentation system for systems running Linux 2.6. Developers can write instrumentation to collect data on the operation of the system. Instrumentation System Server SystemTap server is the server component of an instrumentation system for systems running Linux 2.6. Developers can write instrumentation to collect data on the operation of the system. Regards, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
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