Re: PCP patch for top/libgtop conversion

[Mike Mason <mmlnx@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, the top conversion can access remote pmcd's, but currently only one 
at a time.  What's the consensus of the people on this list?  Would 
displaying data from multiple hosts in a single top session be generally 
useful?
Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:32:55PM -0700, Mike Mason wrote:
>
> > Here's my long awaited patch.  As you know, most of the changes were 
> > made to support conversion of top and libgtop to use PCP.  
>
> Will this enable us to run remote 'top' sessions via 'pmcd'? What
> would be extremely cool is if it would allow us to run 'top' on 
> cluster frontends, showing collected process info for all nodes in 
> the cluster.
>
>   -jf (crossing fingers hoping IBMs involvement in PCP might mean
>         they're also considering porting it to AIX :)