Bug 84112

Summary: iostat misreporting information
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Mike Norton <mike.norton>
Component: sysstatAssignee: Charlie Bennett <ccb>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Mike Norton 2003-02-12 13:06:40 UTC
Description of problem:

When Running iostat -x 10 4  I get the following output which is clearly not 
correct as the machine is almost completely idle


avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           4.12    0.00    0.45   95.42

Device:  rrqm/s wrqm/s   r/s   w/s  rsec/s  wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  
svctm  %util
sda        0.00   7.30  0.00  3.10    0.00   84.00    27.10 4294937.42   38.71 
3225.81 100.00
sda1       0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   
0.00   0.00
sda2       0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   
0.00   0.00
sda3       0.00   2.00  0.00  1.20    0.00   25.60    21.33     0.07   58.33  
16.67   0.20
sda4       0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   
0.00   0.00
sda5       0.00   1.50  0.00  0.70    0.00   17.60    25.14     0.02   28.57  
28.57   0.20
sda6       0.00   3.80  0.00  1.20    0.00   40.80    34.00 4294957.33   25.00 
8325.00  99.90
sda7       0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   
0.00   0.00
sda8       0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   
0.00   0.00
sda9       0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   
0.00   0.00
sda10      0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   
0.00   0.00

on other machines I get the following output which Is what I would expect :-

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
          41.27    0.00    1.32   57.40

Device:  rrqm/s wrqm/s   r/s   w/s  rsec/s  wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  
svctm  %util
sda        4.20   2.50 13.00  7.70  137.60   81.60    10.59     1.11   53.62  
22.22   4.60
sda1       0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   
0.00   0.00
sda2       0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   
0.00   0.00
sda3       0.00   0.90  0.00  1.30    0.00   17.60    13.54     0.02   15.38   
7.69   0.10
sda4       0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   
0.00   0.00
sda5       0.00   0.50  0.00  0.70    0.00    9.60    13.71     0.03   42.86  
14.29   0.10
sda6       0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   
0.00   0.00
sda7       0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   
0.00   0.00
sda8       0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   
0.00   0.00
sda9       0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   
0.00   0.00
sda10      0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00   
0.00   0.00
sda11      4.20   1.10 13.00  5.70  137.60   54.40    10.27     1.06   56.68  
24.60   4.60
sdb      659.50   6.90 486.50 11.10 9168.00  144.00    18.71    14.72   29.58   
8.18  40.70
sdb1     659.50   6.90 486.50 11.10 9168.00  144.00    18.71    14.72   29.58   
8.18  40.70

Comment 1 Nils Philippsen 2004-01-13 15:57:40 UTC
Does the problem still show with a recent kernel erratum?

Comment 2 Charlie Bennett 2004-08-27 22:54:57 UTC
Hi - I'm testing a newer upstream version of the sysstat package that
appears to correct this problem.  You can find a copy at
http://people.redhat.com/ccb/sysstat/2.1AS/<arch>/5.0.5-3.

If you are willing to try it out, your feedback would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks