[ANNOUNCE] SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.5.0-1 now available


SGI is pleased to announce the new version of Performance Co-Pilot (PCP)
open source (version 2.5.0-1) is now available for download from :

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/download

For those using i386, the easiest way to install or upgrade is :
rpm -Uvh ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/download/pcp-2.5.0-1.i386.rpm
and then restart the PCP service: /etc/init.d/pcp restart

If you're running something more recent than RH9, you probably
want to rebuild the binary RPM from the src using :
rpmbuild --rebuild ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/download/pcp-2.5.0-1.src.rpm

Apart from numerous bugfixes and enhancements, the important changes
in this release include a new version of the libpcp_pmda library
(containing Ken McDonell's excellent new pmdaCache routines), and a
script for generating the source code for a PMDA from an augmented
namespace, see genpmda(1). A full list of changes since the last release
(which was version 2.4.0-1) is in /usr/share/doc/pcp-2.5.0/CHANGELOG
after installation, or on-line at :

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/latest.html

For those setting up source-forge projects for "pcp-addons", we ask
that you reference the PCP base package from oss.sgi.com rather than
mirroring it directly. Please send changes / patches to pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
and cc: markgw@xxxxxxx for review and inclusion back into the mainline
source (markgw@xxxxxxx is continuing as the maintainer for this).

In the download directory there are binary RPMs for i386 (gcc 3.2.x /
glibc 2.3.x) and ia64 in the above ftp directory. Other Linux platforms
(including those still using glibc 2.96 / glibc 2.x) will need to build
binary RPMs from the SRPM, e.g. :

# rpmbuild --rebuild pcp-2.5.0-1.src.rpm

or from the tarball, e.g. :

# tar xvzf pcp-2.5.0-1.src.tar.gz
# cd pcp-2.5.0
# ./Makepkgs

Non-linux platforms need to build the source and then manually install, e.g. :

# tar xvzf pcp-2.5.0-1.src.tar.gz
# cd pcp-2.5.0
# make
# make install


About Performance Co-Pilot (PCP)

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.

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

SGI would like to thank those who contributed to this and earlier releases.

Thanks

-- Mark Goodwin <markgw@xxxxxxx>
SGI Engineering

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