Future Fedora Kernels and atop
Albert Graham
agraham at g-b.net
Thu Mar 20 20:10:07 UTC 2008
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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
>
I agree with you, but you're asking me to ask him to pick a fight with
the kernel guys :), somehow I think he's lost already given that atop
has been around since 2001, but I'll ask anyhow.
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list