Bug 132256
| Summary: | /proc/partitions showing incorrect information | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Duncan Innes <duncan> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Peter Staubach <staubach> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | petrides |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-04-12 19:27:30 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Just an additional note: This bug has been entered mainly in the hope of getting 32 or 64 bit unsigned integers used for all the counters in the /proc system. However, a good start would be a pointer to some documentation on what is currently in these files. I searched high and low for info on the /proc/partitions file, but found very little in the way of documentation. None of what I found was concrete in it's explanations. Stephen knows more about this than I do, reassigning. Stephen, Do you remember Steven Wallace from school at Heriots? He says hello. Anyway, I've been in a position to do some stats using /proc/partitions under the 2.6 kernels and things appear to have changed (I'm not just talking about the layout of the files in /proc either). The graphs no longer show massive spikes of activity that happen when the counter trips over it's limits. I've not managed to do any serious disk hammering tests however, so it could just be that the limits have been raised to 64-bit counters and I haven't reached the limits yet. Is there any information on these counters? Thanks Duncan Innes |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20040319 Galeon/1.3.7 Description of problem: When monitoring the statistics in /proc/partitions for the disks on my system, I find that the data for ruse, wuse and aveq don't appear to be rolling over at the 32-bit unsigned integer limit. They appear to be rolling over at a figure 100 times lower than the limit. Is this correct? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-hugemem-2.4.21-15.0.4.EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set up a cron job to append /proc/partitions to the end of a log file every minute. 2. Set of some heavy disk load task (mine moves multiple loads of 2Gb around the various disks on our system) 3. Investigate log file looking at the ruse, wuse and aveq columns Actual Results: The ruse, wuse and aveq figures roll over at a level 100 times lower than the 32-bit unsigned limit. Expected Results: Expect all figures to roll over at the 32-bit unsigned integer limit (except "running" which is not a counter) Unless I am mistaken of course. But the only description of the /proc/partitons data that I've been able to find states that the counters all roll over at the 32-bit unsigned integer limit. Additional info: Example of my /proc/partitions data: [root@wwllnx0001 root]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running use aveq 58 0 2097152 lvma 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 1 16777216 lvmb 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 2 8290304 lvmc 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 3 54341632 lvmd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 4 16777216 lvme 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 5 142245888 lvmf 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 6 37564416 lvmg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 7 10485760 lvmh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 8 4194304 lvmi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 9 16777216 lvmj 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 10 4194304 lvmk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 11 16777216 lvml 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 12 71118848 lvmm 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 105 0 35561280 cciss/c1d0 94527 440356 3916694 2346830 742161 764052 12150750 35658510 0 3150280 38008950 105 1 130544 cciss/c1d0p1 929 58057 117972 17720 34 47 166 1360 0 7570 19080 105 2 10901760 cciss/c1d0p2 93440 381519 3796846 2328630 742127 764005 12150584 35657150 0 3142910 37989400 105 3 2044080 cciss/c1d0p3 11 57 136 40 0 0 0 0 0 40 40 105 4 1 cciss/c1d0p4 2 0 4 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 105 5 2044064 cciss/c1d0p5 11 57 136 20 0 0 0 0 0 20 20 105 6 2044064 cciss/c1d0p6 11 57 136 30 0 0 0 0 0 30 30 105 7 2044064 cciss/c1d0p7 11 57 136 30 0 0 0 0 0 30 30 105 8 2044064 cciss/c1d0p8 11 57 136 30 0 0 0 0 0 30 30 105 9 2044064 cciss/c1d0p9 11 57 136 30 0 0 0 0 0 30 30 105 10 2044064 cciss/c1d0p10 11 57 136 40 0 0 0 0 0 40 40 105 11 2044064 cciss/c1d0p11 11 57 136 20 0 0 0 0 0 20 20 105 12 2044064 cciss/c1d0p12 11 57 136 40 0 0 0 0 0 40 40 105 13 2044064 cciss/c1d0p13 11 57 136 20 0 0 0 0 0 20 20 105 14 2044064 cciss/c1d0p14 11 57 136 50 0 0 0 0 0 50 50 105 15 2044064 cciss/c1d0p15 11 57 136 40 0 0 0 0 0 40 40 104 0 35561280 cciss/c0d0 1066586 3079820 33169214 536492 11195311 95541663 855380448 32352570 0 27464537 33401672 104 1 35561264 cciss/c0d0p1 1066574 3079760 33169070 536512 11195311 95541663 855380448 32352790 0 27464507 33414492 104 16 71126640 cciss/c0d1 266922 1123597 11120282 34297831 13553100 92209165 847698432 40541491 0 15884157 32266609 104 17 71126624 cciss/c0d1p1 266910 1123537 11120138 34297791 13553100 92209165 847698432 40541671 0 15884117 32275169 104 32 71126640 cciss/c0d2 1200735 26785086 223882524 10176765 7011520 133677025 1126657048 6040136 0 16233777 16577022 104 33 71126624 cciss/c0d2p1 1200723 26785026 223882380 10176755 7011520 133677025 1126657048 6040176 0 16233747 16577042 104 48 142253280 cciss/c0d3 980181 27461999 227532058 3767854 4814297 129221605 1073518312 34450394 0 4967177 38353758 104 49 142253264 cciss/c0d3p1 980169 27461939 227531914 3767834 4814297 129221605 1073518312 34450484 0 4967137 38350508 104 64 71126640 cciss/c0d4 235881 3751049 31891158 15702374 8819205 205909885 1720470352 10294090 0 22312997 26317154 104 65 71126624 cciss/c0d4p1 235869 3750989 31891014 15702364 8819205 205909885 1720470352 10294320 0 22312977 26326644