[LAD] itop

elboulangero elboulangero at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 20:37:38 UTC 2014


Oups, wrong link, bloody html... Let me try again:

https://gitorious.org/elboulangero/irqtop


On 04/21/2014 06:05 PM, elboulangero wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just resurrecting this thread to inform that I renamed the tool to 
> irqtop as suggested.
>
> New name, new link:
> https://gitorious.org/elboulangero/irqtop 
> <https://gitorious.org/elboulangero/itop>
>
> I also added a man page, and fixed some little bugs here and there.
>
> Cheers
>
> On 05/26/2013 07:59 PM, Diego Veralli wrote:
>> Hey elboulangero,
>>
>> You might want to change the name, there are already 2 itops that I 
>> know of, that monitor interrupts:
>>
>> * http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/itop
>> * http://et.redhat.com/~jmh/tools/xen/itop 
>> <http://et.redhat.com/%7Ejmh/tools/xen/itop> (this is just a small 
>> perl script, but still...)
>>
>> Yours provides much more information (works fine on my machine BTW), 
>> so it's a useful addition, but if you just call it itop it's going to 
>> be a bit confusing..
>>
>> Cheers
>> Diego
>>
>> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:15 AM, elboulangero 
>> <elboulangero at gmail.com <mailto:elboulangero at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello everyone,
>>
>>     lately I had to fight big XRUN troubles, and thanks to this forum
>>     I finally solved that. This excellent thread saved me:
>>     http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lau/2012/9/5/192706
>>
>>     On my long quest, I tried to see a little bit more what happened
>>     with the IRQs on my system. I searched for a kind of 'top'
>>     utility to monitor the interrupts, but the only apps I found were
>>     either deprecated, or missed some cool features.
>>
>>     So, I ended up writing my own tool to monitor the file
>>     /proc/interrupts.
>>     It's available a this address:
>>     https://gitorious.org/elboulangero/itop
>>
>>     As its name indicates, it behaves pretty much like top, but for
>>     interrupts.
>>     It's quite a simple thing, that I tried to enhance a bit with
>>     some cool features:
>>      + refresh period can be specified.
>>      + two display modes: display interrupts for every CPU, or only a
>>     sum of all CPU.
>>      + display every interrupt (sorted like /proc/interrupts), or
>>     only active interrupts (sorted by activity).
>>      + in case the number of interrupts changes during the execution
>>     of itop (due to a rmmod/modprobe), it's handled without any fuss.
>>      + command-line options are also available as hotkeys for
>>     convenience.
>>      + at last, the program display a summary on exit. The idea is
>>     that this summary could be copied/pasted in emails to help debugging.
>>
>>     If anyone is interested, feel free to try and comment !
>>
>>     Cheers
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