Description

This test case helps you generate and upload boot speed data when booting with a very minimal set of services.

How to test

Ensure Bootchart is installed according to these instructions
Ensure you have reported your system information to Smolt according to these instructions
Ensure the readahead package is installed, with yum or the graphical package manager
Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/readahead and change READAHEAD="yes" to READAHEAD="no" if it is currently set to yes
Using system-config-services or ntsysv, ensure that only the following services are activated at boot: atd,auditd,crond,haldaemon,messagebus,network,rsyslog,sshd
Reboot the system
Log in, then run this command (from your home directory, or from a specially created directory if you want to keep things tidy): cp /var/log/bootchart.tgz ./Bootchart-head -n1 /etc/sysconfig/hw-uuid-minimal.tgz
Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/readahead and change READAHEAD="no" to READAHEAD="yes" if it is currently set to no
touch /.readahead_collect
Reboot, then as soon as the system is fully booted, reboot again
Log in, then run this command (from your home directory, or from a specially created directory if you want to keep things tidy): cp /var/log/bootchart.tgz ./Bootchart-head -n1 /etc/sysconfig/hw-uuid-minimal-ra.tgz
Optionally, you can run the command bootchart as root to generate a bootchart image, then save that with a similar, unique filename

Two different sets of boot speed data should be generated and saved with unique file names.