Re: Future Fedora Kernels and atop

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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