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+Bootchart provides a shell script to be run by the kernel in the init phase.
+The script will run in background and collect process information, CPU
+statistics and disk usage statistics from the /proc file system.
+The performance data are stored in memory and are written to disk once the
+boot process completes.
+
+The boot log file is later processed using a Java application which builds
+the process tree and renders a performance chart in different formats (png,
+svg, eps).
+
+This requires apache-ant, and you need the jdk package from /extra installed.
+
+After installation, to run bootchartd append the following boot option:
+ init=/sbin/bootchartd
+You may want to edit your lilo configuration file. Also note that this will
+not work if run from a kernel using an initrd - you must use one of the
+huge* kernels (or a custom kernel).