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Added README to PCM collector plugin
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Dariusz Smigiel (dasm) committed Sep 1, 2015
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## Pulse PCM Collector Plugin

# Description
Collect metrics from PCM (Intel Performance Counter Monitor)

# Assumptions
User is required to have PCM installed in system. It can be downloaded from [Intel PCM](http://www.intel.com/software/pcm) site.

# Suggestions
* Currently, Ubuntu 14.04 users have to manually compile it and add it to $PATH or $PULSE_PCM_PATH to be able to use it.
* pulsed has to be running with root privileges, for ability to collect data from PCM.
* To be able, to use PCM, [NMI watchdog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-maskable_interrupt) needs to be disabled. There are two ways to do this:
* at running time: `echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog`
* permanently: `echo 'kernel.nmi_watchdog=0' >> /etc/sysctl.conf`

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