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Expand Up @@ -88,6 +88,13 @@ If you want to run `xtop`, install python dependencies to your personal virtual
. .venv/bin/activate # change to where your venv is
pip install duckdb textual

# xtop expects to find the partitions data source
# in $data_dir/partitions, currently we need to
# manually creating a symlink to /proc/partitions,
# replace /var/lib/xcapture to your data_dir if not
# using the default.
ln -s /var/lib/xcapture/partitions /proc/partitions

cd xtop
export TERM=xterm-256color
export XCAPTURE_DATADIR=demo # demo workload files under xtop/demo
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