Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is an open-source, flexible, and extensible system performance monitoring tool. It helps system administrators to monitor the performance of various resources such as CPU, memory, network, and disk. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install PCP on macOS.
Before you begin, ensure that the following prerequisites have been met:
Homebrew is a popular package manager for macOS. It makes it easy to install and manage software packages on your system. To install Homebrew, open a terminal and run the following command:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
After the installation is complete, run the command brew doctor to check if Homebrew is properly installed.
Once Homebrew is installed, you can easily install Performance Co-Pilot by running the following command in a terminal:
brew install pcp
This command will install PCP and its dependencies on your system.
To check if PCP is installed correctly, run the following command:
pmcd --version
This command will display the version number of PCP if it is installed. If you encounter any errors or cannot see the version number, refer to the troubleshooting section.
If you encounter any issues during the installation or verification process, try the following steps:
brew doctor.In this tutorial, you learned how to install Performance Co-Pilot on macOS using the Homebrew package manager. With PCP, you can easily monitor and analyze the performance of your system resources.
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