atop

[Jos Boumans]

On 30 Jun 2010, at 17:45, John Tapsell wrote:
>> Gimme an example of a problem that atop will help solve for which no
>> other method will suffice.
>
> 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.

This is huge, and I don't know of any other tool that can do
this and know several people that use the tool for exactly
this to diagnose network related issues.

The other is the resource utilization logging. Very useful
for diagnosing after the fact. Less critical than the one
above, but for this, I also don't know of another tool that
provides this functionality.

Do both of these features require the kernel patches to be
applied?

Cheers,

-Jos