procps testing

[Henry Edward Hardy]

Albert Cahalan is the maintainer of a procps package, which we use for
debugging the XO and which I use extensively on the OLPC servers. This
package includes "ps" and "top".

I told him last week he could use dev for testing the new procps on the
AMD-64 processors. It is necessary for proper operation of crank, pedal, and
many of our other back-end machines that these tools work correctly and
reliably.

--HH.

transcript follows:

--- Log opened Sun Oct 19 23:45:53 2008
23:45 -!- Irssi: Starting query in oftc with cahalan
23:45 <cahalan> Is it OK to use dev.laptop.org for a few odds and ends? (no
real load) For example, I ought to test procps on x86_64 before a release.
--- Log closed Sun Oct 19 23:51:52 2008
--- Log opened Tue Oct 21 15:38:58 2008
15:38 <hhardy> albert if it is for olpc-related and doesn't damage the
system should be fine
15:39 <hhardy> cahalan: albert if it is for olpc-related and doesn't damage
the system should be fine
--- Log closed Tue Oct 21 15:44:53 2008

--HH.

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