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atop


Information about the package, atop, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The atop package is designed for, An advanced interactive monitor to view the load on system and.


Package Name:

atop

Summary:

An advanced interactive monitor to view the load on system and

Description:

An advanced interactive monitor for Linux-systems to view the load on system-level and process-level. The command atop has some major advantages compared to other performance-monitors: - Resource consumption by all processes - Utilization of all relevant resources - Permanent logging of resource utilization - Highlight critical resources - Watch activity only - Watch deviations only - Accumulated process activity per user - Accumulated process activity per program For more informations: http://www.atcomputing.nl/Tools/atop The package does not make use of the patches available at http://www.atcomputing.nl/Tools/atop/kernpatch.html

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.27

Release:

2.el6

Size:

229 k

Repository:

installed

From Repository:

epel

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for atop


Control the atop package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install atop

This command will install atop on the server.

yum remove atop

This command will un-install atop on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove atop, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove atop

This command will un-install atop on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove atop when using the -y flag.

yum update atop

This command will update atop to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove atop, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update atop

This command will update atop to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove atop when using the -y flag.

yum info atop

This command will show you core information about the atop package.

yum deplist atop

This command will show you the dependencies for atop. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update atop

This command will check if there is an update waiting on atop. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.