I am on 2.4.21, disk_io is empty too.
Marian

--- Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:37:55AM -0600, Hodge,
> Robert L wrote:
>
> > I'm having problems with the sysstat package on
> the Debian 3.01
> > distribution. "sar -b" is returning all zeroes for
> disk activity and
> > "iostat" is not reporting anything for disk. It
> looks like iostat is not
> > finding any disks. I've searched the archives of
> this list and other
> > lists with no positive results. I've done numerous
> web searches with no
> > results. I've upgraded the sysstat package to
> 4.1.2 from 4.0.4 with no
> > resolution to the problem. I've upgraded the Linux
> kernel to 2.4.21 from
> > 2.4.17 with no resolution to the problem.
> >
> > The Debian guest is running under z/VM 4.3 on a
> z/800 processor.
> >
> > Can anyone tell how to fix the sysstat package on
> Debian 3.01 for S/390?
>
> It looks like this is a kernel issue, and not
> systat.  If you look in
> /proc/stat, you'll see that the disk_io line is
> empty, whereas on (for
> example) an Intel system with SCSI disks, it
> contains info like this:
>
> disk_io:
> (3,0):(454481,215862,18852900,238619,11184288)
> (8,0):(742898,347204,9634940,395694,6420320)
>
> I only tested with the 2.4.17 kernel in Debian 3.0;
> this may be fixed in
> newer kernels such as the 2.4.19 kernel in
> proposed-updates and unstable.
>
> --
>  - mdz


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