Future Fedora Kernels and atop
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 20 20:03:52 UTC 2008
Albert Graham wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Albert Graham wrote:
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> Any chance of "atop" with kernel counter patches being added to
>>> fedora in the future ?
>>>
>>> This is a nice "advancement" which I'm sure will interest many fedora
>>> as well as RHEL users.
>>>
>>> Ref: http://www.atcomputing.nl/Tools/atop/home.html
>>>
>>> The advantages look very interesting:
>>>
>>> http://www.atcomputing.nl/Tools/atop/whyatop.html
>>
>> Has this been submitted upstream? Any plans to? Fedora prefers staying
>> close to upstream.
>>
>> Rahul
>>
> The site does not indicate that it has, but reading the page on patches
> seems to indicate counters are visible via |/proc//pid//stat as second
> line counters, so I would assume this would worry upstream guys on
> compatibility issues/arguments. Either way, I still think this would be
> a great tool, it works without the patchs but you don't get per process
> stats - which is what most people would be interested in particularly in
> RHEL.
You might want to first talk to them about their plans regarding
upstream submission. Carrying patches forever and forwarding porting
them to each new kernel release is not a long term sustainable solution.
Rahul
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