atop

[John Tapsell]

On 1 July 2010 05:10, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com> wrote:
> I still find 'better task accounting' to be insufficient justification.
> What specifically makes for better task accounting? Why is atop better
> then other methods? As far as I can tell the current patches still
> suffer from the deficiencies mentioned by Andrew Morton in
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120716470803492&w=2
>
> Gimme an example of a problem that atop will help solve for which no
> other method will suffice.

  I'm not an atop developer, but I maintain System Activity - the KDE
GUI "task manager".

For network usage:
* The internet is slow but you don't know what program is
downloading/uploading.  You run atop and see that the ftp server is
uploading at 1MB/s.

I'm not sure what the hard disk counter is all about - I thought that
info was already available..

John