Quoting Kapil Thangavelu ([email protected]): > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:15:00 -0400, Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So this may be a little long winded... > > > > To quickly preface my thoughts I first want to state something pretty > > obvious. In a multi tenant environment ( the current direction we seem > > to > > be headed ) I could care less about some of the tools that are packaged > > in > > sysstat and procps. I don't care about load avg etc for self explanatory > > reasons and presently io reporting (especially in a multi app/multi user > > scenario) is lacking. > > > > That being said I think tools like atop, systemtap, oprofile are good but > > present 2 problems. They are still tools with competition from closed > > source companies ( BMC to name 1) that will ultimately lead to > > discrepancies > > in collected data and they stop short of the challenge The Linux > > Foundation > > has asked the community to tackle with regard to keeping the kernel > > relevant > > for the next 5-10 years. > > > > KSLM is focused purely on gathering statistics around the 5 basic > > principals > > of compute ( cpu / memory / disk (storage) / time / IO (disk and net) on > > a > > per process basis in a standard way across distros and cpu architectures > > using a consistent thing across all implementations (the kernel itself). > > > > So to summarize, could kslm be used to solve the same issue described > > below, > > yep! Would it be as elegant as atop? Part of it's elegance is that it's > > distro agnostic and if used correctly, could be used to actually do > > intelligent workload management and remediation if conditions (like long > > disk waits) are met. > > > > Cole > > > > One issue, is that it appears that is zero public information (as per > google) on KSLM. Could you lend any pointers to code or documentation > about KSLM? I waited and had a look at your linuxcon slides but there's > not much content there. > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/slides/2010/linuxcon2010_crawford.pdf
Yeah, I went to the talk, and there also was not much content there. He has an initial patch, but he really is looking for someone else to take it over. I never did go look at his patch to see if he was just being humble, or if it really is a bad patch. -serge -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
