Current status of the project

Here is what I have been up to till now..

I have my Bootchart prototype finally running.

What all do I have till now?

1. An install script.
2. A shell script that runs instead of init, runs my systemtap script and then calls init.
3. My systemtap script, of course that does the probing for me and gathers the process info and outputs it in XML format.
4. A script that calls my parser and saves the text output ( the renderer is to be built after mid-term evaluation)
5. A java parser that parses the XML output using the SAX interfaces.

The parsed text-mode output looks like:

No of Processes '1249'.
Process Details - Time1214080512744, Pid451, PPid:450, Execname:sh,Probefunc:sys_execve,Pexecname:stapio.
Process Details - Time1214080516148, Pid1, PPid:0, Execname:init,Probefunc:sys_execve,Pexecname:swapper.
Process Details - Time1214080516167, Pid454, PPid:453, Execname:init,Probefunc:sys_execve,Pexecname:init.
Process Details - Time1214080516203, Pid455, PPid:454, Execname:rc.sysinit,Probefunc:sys_execve,Pexecname:rc.sysinit.
......
Note: Processes are not unique.

Now I just need to extend this structure to include the CPU and Disk info.

Another thing I'd like to mention, mounting a temporary file system is necessary even if I log in memory and dump the output in a file at the end of probing. A 'probe end {//do the logging in file }' results in a read-only file-system error
even though you not writing to the file till the system is up.

quick update

okay.. so I coded the XML parser to retrieve the Process information using SAX interface.. (suits my purpose better than DOM)..

I need to modify the renderer to use this now.. and then integrate it to bootchartd.. then 1/3 of my project will be done.. or so I hope.

Writing a mail to my mentor now... will put up details later.