Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is an open-source system performance monitoring toolkit. In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the steps involved in installing PCP on Clear Linux.
Before installing PCP, it is recommended that you ensure Clear Linux is up-to-date by running the following command:
sudo swupd update
To install PCP, run the following command:
sudo swupd bundle-add performance-monitoring
This will install the necessary PCP components on your system.
After installing the PCP components, you need to start the PCP services. Run the following command to start the services:
sudo systemctl start pmcd
After starting the PCP services, you can verify that they are running by running the following command:
sudo systemctl status pmcd
This should output information about the running PCP services.
By default, PCP collects system-wide performance metrics. However, you can configure it to collect additional metrics or change the way it collects metrics. To configure PCP, you need to modify the /etc/pcp/pmlogger/control file.
For example, to configure PCP to collect network statistics, you can add the following line to the /etc/pcp/pmlogger/control file:
network ALL -1 100
After making any changes, restart the PCP services by running the following command:
sudo systemctl restart pmcd
In this tutorial, we've walked you through the steps involved in installing Performance Co-Pilot on Clear Linux. As an open-source system performance monitoring toolkit, PCP is a valuable tool for monitoring the health and performance of your system.
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