any objections on installing htop?

[Tristan Santore]

On 19/06/10 18:07, Ricky Elrod wrote:
> Hey everyone -- I was wondering about getting htop installed throughout
> the infrastructure, as I think this will help with on-the-fly checking of
> issues. For example, if load average is high, it is very easy using htop
> to sort by CPU, and see exactly what is causing the issue. If RAM usage is
> abnormal, it's easy to sort by that. It also has some other features that
> could prove useful.
> 
> A prime example of when this could have been useful was when hosted01's
> load averages went up to near 60 last night. It would have made finding the
> issue quite a bit faster for me.
> 
> I asked on IRC what would have to be done to go about getting it installed,
> and was informed that the first step is to write to the mailing list and
> check
> for any objections, which is the purpose of this email. So, I'll
> formally ask:
> Are there any objections to getting htop installed globall throughout the
> infrastructure?
> 
> It's in EPEL and is 67k, disk-space-wise according to yum.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> 
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I strongly suggest you wait until you get at least 3-4 +1s from the
sysadmin-main folks. Keeping in mind, that any additional application is
an additional potential attack vector.

Regards,

Tristan

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