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Intro

Bootchart is a tool for performance analysis and visualization of the Linux boot process. Resource utilization and process information are collected during the user-space portion of the boot process and are later rendered in a PNG, SVG or EPS encoded chart.

Project

See http://www.bootchart.org/

CELF information

There have been a number of projects to improve Bootchart for use in embedded systems.

There is an excellent paper on using Bootchart with embedded projects, that was given at ELC 2006, available here:

• Visualizing resource usage during initialization of embedded systems