atop?

[Bill Nottingham]

Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net) said: 
> Would it make sense to add these patches to Fedora's kernel?
> 
> http://www.atcomputing.nl/Tools/atop
> 
> This could help in the area of extending laptop battery life by
> detecting unneccessary disk access. The first step is to have some
> disk I/O to process mapping.

These patches:

a) aren't upstream
b) change the format of /proc/stat
c) change process accounting in an incompatible way

So... no.

Bill