From: Julien Desfossez Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:54:48 +0000 (-0400) Subject: note on lttng-sessiond restarting for live in README-LIVE X-Git-Tag: v0.3~123 X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org/?p=lttngtop.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=62895477c7e60525e63e9e5117f92b34d467d0e6 note on lttng-sessiond restarting for live in README-LIVE Signed-off-by: Julien Desfossez --- diff --git a/README-LIVE b/README-LIVE new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d7b6557 --- /dev/null +++ b/README-LIVE @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +In order to use the (beta) live tracing features of LttngTop, you need these +branches : + +git clone -b lttngtop-live git://git.dorsal.polymtl.ca/~jdesfossez/lttng-tools +git clone -b lttngtop-live git://git.dorsal.polymtl.ca/~jdesfossez/babeltrace + +The only difference between these branches and the master branch is that they +export an additional library that is used by lttngtop to do live tracing. + +You have to compile and install lttng-tools before babeltrace since there are +dependencies on the library exposed by this special lttng-tools in babeltrace +for live mmap buffer consuming. + +Then you can compile and use the live branch of LttngTop : +git clone -b live git://git.lttng.org/lttngtop.git + +Once everything is installed, you can start as root lttng-sessiond and use +lttngtop (as root or from a user part of the "tracing" group). + +Note: if lttng-sessiond has been used to record a trace before starting +lttngtop (normal lttng use-case), you need to restart it because it +automatically spawned a consumer that prevents lttngtop from registering its +own consumer. The same applies when you finish using lttngtop, you need to +restart the lttng-sessiond daemon to allow others to record traces again. This +is a know problem of integration that will be fixed. diff --git a/REAME-LIVE b/REAME-LIVE deleted file mode 100644 index 05e8041..0000000 --- a/REAME-LIVE +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ -In order to use the (beta) live tracing features of LttngTop, you need these -branches : - -git clone -b lttngtop-live git://git.dorsal.polymtl.ca/~jdesfossez/lttng-tools -git clone -b lttngtop-live git://git.dorsal.polymtl.ca/~jdesfossez/babeltrace - -The only difference between these branches and the master branch is that they -export an additional library that is used by lttngtop to do live tracing. - -You have to compile and install lttng-tools before babeltrace since there are -dependencies on the library exposed by this special lttng-tools in babeltrace -for live mmap buffer consuming. - -Then you can compile and use the live branch of LttngTop : -git clone -b live git://git.lttng.org/lttngtop.git