Robert, Matt,

It's still empty with 2.4.19.  I haven't looked at the absolute latest
version yet.

Adam?  You've got one up don't you?


Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Zimmerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problems with sysstat package on Debian


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.

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 - mdz

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