From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-tc i686; Nav) Description of problem: Run command sa - here are the first few lines of the output from my system: 386095 53947.37re 41.10cp 0avio 459k 48 6326.80re 5.57cp 0avio 1686k ***other* 10630 20.18re 5.07cp 0avio 538k ifup-post 2 1330.09re 3.69cp 0avio 11685k X 10629 3.89re 3.29cp 0avio 556k ifup-routes 42657 2.78re 2.32cp 0avio 347k sed 10628 5.39re 2.03cp 0avio 588k ifup-aliases 85028 3.76re 1.87cp 0avio 540k ifup-post* 53145 3.79re 1.66cp 0avio 537k ifup-aliases* 5 712.21re 1.62cp 0avio 3149k netscape-naviga 21345 1.67re 1.31cp 0avio 380k basename 443 1.24re 1.04cp 0avio 401k cp 2 3.63re 0.53cp 0avio 354k updatedb 31885 1.06re 0.31cp 0avio 381k hostname 6 357.10re 0.21cp 0avio 2033k gnome-terminal 3645 0.19re 0.17cp 0avio 386k date 21485 1.84re 0.16cp 0avio 405k grep As you can see, each and every line reports 0 for average io. Running sa -D gives a pretty similar result except that all the total io's are 0 instead How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run "sa" or "sa -D" 2. 3. Additional info:
This is still broken in Roswell - can somebody take a look?
Is this issue still relevant in Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3 and/or 8.0?
Still relevant in 8.0
Still relevant in Fedora Core 3. I recall looking at this some time ago. It does not appear that the Linux kernel collects that information in the task struct for the process making it unavailable for accounting. I'll take another pass through it. There may be nothing we can do but update the documentation.
Thank you for your notice The problem was fixed (fixed version is 6.3.2-35) Ivana Varekova
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-211.html