From: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
To: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Baker,
Brian (ISS - Houston)" <brian.b@hp.com>
Subject: Re: patch so cciss stats are collected in /proc/stat
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:39:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <415B0F85.3090808@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D4CFB69C345C394284E4B78B876C1CF107DBFE1A@cceexc23.americas.cpqcorp.net>
Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote:
>>mike.miller@hp.com wrote:
>>
>>>Currently cciss statistics are not collected in /proc/stat.
>>
>>This patch
>>
>>>bumps DK_MAX_MAJOR to 111 to fix that. This has been a
>>
>>common complaint
>>
>>>by customers wishing to gather info about cciss devices.
>>>Please consider this for inclusion. Applies to 2.4.28-pre3.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>mikem
>>>
>>
>>--------------------------------------------------------------
>>-----------------
>>
>>>diff -burNp lx2428-pre1.orig/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
>>
>>lx2428-pre1/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
>>
>>>--- lx2428-pre1.orig/include/linux/kernel_stat.h
>>
>>2004-08-23 15:41:43.640300000 -0500
>>
>>>+++ lx2428-pre1/include/linux/kernel_stat.h 2004-08-23
>>
>>15:43:07.097613064 -0500
>>
>>>@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
>>> * used by rstatd/perfmeter
>>> */
>>>
>>>-#define DK_MAX_MAJOR 16
>>>+#define DK_MAX_MAJOR 111
>>> #define DK_MAX_DISK 16
>>>
>>> struct kernel_stat {
>>>-
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>>
>>The answer to this is to use the latest sysstat tools. the latest
>>version of iostat, sar, etc draw information out of /proc/partitions
>>rather than out of /proc/stat. Or are you using some other
>>home rolled
>>tool in this case?
>>
>>Neil
>
>
> It's customers that are doing this. I think some of them are using their own tools. Others are probably using whatever comes on their distro.
>
> mikem
>
They should probably upgrade their tools, be they from the distro or
their own (It was my understanding that /proc/stat was depricated and
going to be removed in the not-to-distant future).
Neil
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-29 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-29 19:26 patch so cciss stats are collected in /proc/stat Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2004-09-29 19:39 ` Neil Horman [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-29 17:25 Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2004-09-29 16:29 Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2004-09-29 16:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-29 16:58 ` Andreas Haumer
2004-10-01 5:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-09-29 17:20 ` mikem
2004-10-01 5:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-09-29 20:35 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-29 16:13 mike.miller
2004-09-29 16:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-29 19:08 ` Neil Horman
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