any objections on installing htop?

Ricky Elrod codeblock at elrod.me
Sun Jun 20 15:35:08 UTC 2010


Yep, which is why I'm asking here. It's not a daemon or long-running service
or anything, but I do understand what you're saying. And yes, I'm planning on
getting some -main's to +1 it, but I was told the first step was throwing an email
out on the list.

Thanks

On Jun 19, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Tristan Santore wrote:

> 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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