Future Fedora Kernels and atop

[Albert Graham]

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.