On Thursday 07/03/08 @ 3:03 pm MDT, I received this from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > So what's the shortest/best path to getting live per-process > > IO accounting in RHEL? Can we pay Redhat to turn this on in > > a supported kernel for us? Other thoughts/suggestions? I'm > > aware of iotop, atop, and others, all dependent on these > > kernel parameters. Are their other Linux tools that do this > > job without the kernel reconfig? > > I believe this is also enabled in Fedora 8+, because this > feature was added in the 2.6.20 release of the kernel. RHEL5, > which was based on Fedora 6, is on the 2.6.18 kernel. Should > this feature have existed 2 years ago? Probably. Does > upgrading the kernel from 2.6.18 fit into the RedHat's support > plan for their distributions? Not that I've seen. Luckily > though, we should be seeing RHEL6 sometime in the near future, > and this should have this feature. Unfortunately, that might > be the fastest method to supported solution you will see. > Although it might not hurt to talk to GS about a custom > kernel.
Thanks for the info. Who is GS? Ed _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
