Bug#754932: RFP: tiptop -- display hardware performance counters for Linux tasks

[Török Edwin <edwin@etorok.net>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
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   Package name: tiptop
        Version: 2.2
Upstream Author: Erven Rohou <erven.rohou@inria.fr>
            URL: http://tiptop.gforge.inria.fr/
        License: GPLv2
    Description: (from the website and README)

Tiptop is a performance monitoring tool for Linux.  It provides a
dynamic real-time view of the tasks running in the system. Tiptop is
very similar to the top utility, but most of the information displayed
comes from hardware counters.

Features:
    No root privilege needed
    No patch to OS
    No module to load
    No need to instrument applications
    No need to even restart applications
    Any event supported by the hardware
        some predefined: instructions, cycles, LLC misses (easy)
        any hardware supported event (slightly harder)
    Live mode and batch mode
    Configure file to define counters and screens
    Pretty much like top