Bug 1027291
| Summary: | Missing smemcap command | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Rick <rickhg12hs> |
| Component: | smem | Assignee: | Matthew Miller <mattdm> |
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 21 | CC: | ddcruver, mattdm, mschmidt, rickhg12hs |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2015-12-02 03:01:40 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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From later in the man page, it really seems clear that the intention is for this file to be compiled for embedded systems, not built and included as a binary. We could include it as a doc file, maybe, or in /usr/share? It seems that adding smemcap would allow users to separate data collection from data analysis. This could be useful for cases of unattended systems that meet some memory state criteria and then trigger data collection. Some use cases I can think of would be: If there was a hook that people could use when out of OOM Killer ran they could run this to see what was using up most of the space using the PSS statistics instead. Additionally it could be useful for data collection for frameworks such as Nagios or to be placed on a cron job. I don't know the actual overhead but smemcap which doesn't used python and uses c would take up less resources and be more appropriate to use instead of the smem application. Eventually the user or Nagios would have to use the full smem application to get human readable data. In general asking a system administrator to build an additional file to do enable a feature is in my opinion against the nature of RPMS but the note being there is better then a complete omission. 1.) I agree maybe the file should be in /usr/share and the man page should point the user there to find it 2.) Pre-building it should be done. Maybe a separate package but this executable should be relatively small and wouldn't hurt that much to add it in the package. (In reply to Daniel Cruver from comment #3) > 1.) I agree maybe the file should be in /usr/share and the man page should > point the user there to find it > 2.) Pre-building it should be done. Maybe a separate package but this > executable should be relatively small and wouldn't hurt that much to add it > in the package. Sounds reasonable. I'm traveling now and won't get a chance to work on this for a while, but if you want to submit patches for the spec file and man page that'd probably speed things up. :) If we do include a pre-compiled smemcap, I think it is useful for the main package to remain noarch. This message is a notice that Fedora 19 is now at end of life. Fedora has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 19. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '19'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 19 is end of life. 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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. I don't seem smemcap available for F21 either. True. Still not a thing. Thanks for reopening -- this had slipped from my radar. This message is a reminder that Fedora 21 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 21. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '21'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 21 is end of life. 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Description of problem: program "smemcap" is not included in package Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.3-1 How reproducible: smemcap never found Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install smem with "yum install smem" 2. Try to run command "smemcap" 3. Actual results: bash: smemcap: command not found... Expected results: smemcap found and functional Additional info: smemcap is described in smem man page... To capture memory statistics on resource-constrained systems, the the smem source includes a utility named smemcap. smemcap captures all /proc entries required by smem and outputs them as an uncompressed .tar file to STDOUT. smem can analyze the output using the --source option. smemcap is small and does not require Python.