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From: blair@obdient.UUCP (Doug Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: sar in 386 (was controller/driver combo... will it work?)
Message-ID: <495@obdient.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 12:40:03 GMT
Sender: blair@obdient.UUCP
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Keywords: sar -d option missing
In-reply-to: your article <3124@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>


> [ stuff deleted ]
> >> And can we have the 'sar' disk activity code put back in please, so 'sar'
> >> can report on disk I/O activity (on the '286, the '386 I haven't checked)?
> 
> Well, Doug, I'm running System V/386 2.2U (this is, I believe, the latest
> release) and typing "sar -d" yields an empty accounting report for me.  I
> believe my system is doing the appropriate accounting data collection --
> perhaps I'm missing an option somewhere.  Did disk accounting work for you
> straight out of the wrapper?

Obdient runs microport SysV/386 3.0U. To be honest I started the accounting
stuff running and only looked at a few screens of the output.  sar -d does
*NOT* seem to work properly here, either. It produces a blank report form,
just like yours. sar is in there, the -d option is in there, but it
doesn't look like the data is....

Interestingly, the sar -r (unused memory pages) and sar -S (server and
request queue) options both crash and report floating point execption - 
core dumped errors. Anyone else report these conditions? Maybe I'm 
missing an option too.....

While we're on the subject - here's an official "Boy is there egg on
*my* face" apology to Karl Denninger at ddsw1, original poster of this
discussion. I just saw "sar" and didn't realize that he was referring
to a single option of "sar", one which I have little occasion to use.

Doug
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