On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:43:32PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm(a)ATrpms.net) said:
> Would it make sense to add these patches to Fedora's kernel?
>
>
http://www.atcomputing.nl/Tools/atop
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> This could help in the area of extending laptop battery life by
> detecting unneccessary disk access. The first step is to have some
> disk I/O to process mapping.
These patches:
a) aren't upstream
b) change the format of /proc/stat
c) change process accounting in an incompatible way
So... no.
OK, fair enough (I wasn't aware of b) and c)).
Any other way then to achive the stated goals?
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