X-Git-Url: http://git.lttng.org./?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ltt%2Fbranches%2Fpoly%2Fltt%2Fconvert%2FREADME;h=e3af7f7ba3e3ee0c94ffa3c640c4016a424d1acb;hb=2da616770cf1e686eafdca9f2b155826ad94ee46;hp=d71523c15d7ce33e642a9a2f2dc76bcae66987b0;hpb=59460ee38a3ccc39e6d1babff35243bb12cdd392;p=lttv.git diff --git a/ltt/branches/poly/ltt/convert/README b/ltt/branches/poly/ltt/convert/README index d71523c1..e3af7f7b 100644 --- a/ltt/branches/poly/ltt/convert/README +++ b/ltt/branches/poly/ltt/convert/README @@ -1,14 +1,17 @@ The application 'convert' is used to convert an old format tracefile into a new -format tracefile. It has three commandline parameters, the first is tracefile -name, the second is a number (number of cpu), the last one is root directory -for the new trace (this can be omitted, by default it is 'foo') +format tracefile. It has several commandline parameters, the first is process file +name, the second is a number (the number of cpu in the machine), the third is +the first tracefile name(corresponding to the first cpu), the fourth is the +second tracefile name(corresponding to the second cpu), the fifth is ..., +the last one is root directory for the new trace (this can be omitted, +by default it is 'foo') The command line looks like this: - convert tracefile_name number_cpu foo_dir + ./convert processfile_name the_number_of_cpu first_tracefile_name, ..., foo_dir -There is also an script file 'sysInfo' which is used to get system information +There is also a script file 'sysInfo' which is used to get system information from your local machine, the information is saved in 'sysInfo.out' which will -be read by 'convert' later. If the old tracefile is generated in other machine, +be read by 'convert' later. If the old tracefile is generated by other machine, then the 'sysInfo.out' should be gotten from that machine. 'core.xml' is a facility file, after run 'convert', it needs to be copied to