Future Fedora Kernels and atop

[Rahul Sundaram]

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