RFC for Smolt features

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Thu Dec 13 15:20:49 UTC 2007


Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 23:05 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
>> After thinking it over, I've decided that having a Privacy Policy for
>> Smolt would be a great experiment as a community process.  The rules
>> are pretty simple.  Mike McGrath is a BDFL (That is not a Braised Duck
>> avec Foie gras sous Liqueur', as tasty as it might sound.)  Decisions
>> tend to get made by the people coding, but we are looking for input to
>> see what people want out of Smolt.  This way, we know what kind of
>> information gathering is desired, and which kinds are considered too
>> invasive.
> 
> I was recently wishing Smolt collected more detailed CPU information.
> This would basically consist of collecting the flags: line
> in /proc/cpuinfo. Personally I'd like to know how many machines have
> cmov, sse and sse2. This would mostly be unique to i386, x86_64 is
> always going to have them, and PPC doesn't even have a flags: line...
> 
> Also, the ram/swap/cpu mhz graphs on the web site are IMHO too coarse to
> be very useful.
> 

/me reiterates the request for filesystem information too :)

Popular tool you guys have here! ;)

-Eric




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