---
name: "bootchart2"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "bootchart2"
version: "0.14.4-3+b1"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bootchart2"
---

# bootchart2(1)

collects and analyses data from boot process

## NAME

bootchart2 - collects and analyses data from boot process

## DESCRIPTION

bootchart2 is a tool to log the boot process and make a nice graph out of it, to usually see where it takes longer.\
 It consists of three different pieces of software: a shell script, a collector and a visualisation tool.\
 Please also see the manual pages referred to in the **SEE ALSO** section.

## CONFIGURATION

After install simply add these options to your kernel command line, normally in */boot/grub/menu.lst:*

```
initcall_debug printk.time=y quiet init=/sbin/bootchartd ...
```

*Then after bootup run pybootchartgui to get an interactive* *chart rendering tool.* *If you want to chart the initrd, add*

```
rdinitrd=/sbin/bootchartd
```

*to the kernel command line.*

*To make bootchart2 work best, please ensure your kernel is*  *configured with* *CONFIG\_PROC\_EVENTS=y* *and* *CONFIG\_TASKSTATS=y*

*If you want to start bootchart2 in a dracut (version \>= 008)* *initramfs, you have to change* *init=/sbin/bootchartd* *to* *rdinit=/sbin/bootchartd* *and regenerate the initramfs with bootchart support with:*

```
# dracut -f -a bootchart
```

## SEE ALSO

[**pybootchartgui**(1)](/pybootchartgui/1.md), [**bootchartd**(1)](/bootchartd/1.md)

## AUTHOR

**bootchart2** was written by:

```
Anders Norgaard <anders.norgaard@gmail.com>
Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com>
Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Henning Niss <henningniss@gmail.com>
Riccardo Magliocchetti <riccardo.magliocchetti@gmail.com>
```

This manual page was written by Francesca Ciceri \<madamezou@yahoo.it\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others), and is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or, at your choice, any later version.