any objections on installing htop?

Ricky Elrod codeblock at elrod.me
Sun Jun 20 15:32:11 UTC 2010


Yep, that's what I'm planning so long as there are no objections.
Thanks :)

On Jun 19, 2010, at 8:19 PM, Darren VanBuren wrote:

> If you want to install this, make sure you do it in puppet, don't just
> install it in yum on a machine.
> 
> htop is useful, it's just policy for things to be installed via
> puppet, as it is much easier to manage.
> 
> Darren L. VanBuren
> =====================
> http://theoks.net/
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:07, Ricky Elrod <codeblock at elrod.me> 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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