From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0) Description of problem: I realize that AS 2.1 contains sysstat 4.01. However, this version is a bit broken for ia64. In SGI's ProPack overlay, we install sysstat 4.07. I'm entering this bug as I understand the next AS will have 4.07. There is a bug in the way SADC reads /proc/meminfo that affects machines with 100g of memory or more -- it truncates the memory usage string to 8 characters. I contacted the Author to let him know a fix he may want would be coming. I also wanted to be sure to file a Redhat bug. I have fixed the problem and my testing shows it seems to be working. I'll post a diff as soon as my code fix is peer reviewed internally. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in to a machine with more than 100g of memory and systat 4.07 2. Run a commadn like "sar -r 1 10" 3. Notice that the memory info reported is truncated. Compare to /proc/meminfo. Additional info: As I said, I will have a code diff for this after my fix is peer reviewed internally. Expect an additional add soon (a day or two).
Created attachment 92223 [details] This is a diff of my changes to solve the problem in systat 4.07 This is a regular rdiff of my changes to the 4.07 sysstat to fix this bug. I'll also post a more human-readable zdiff in a moment.
Created attachment 92224 [details] This is a more human-readable diff format for browsing.
Thank you for your notice. The current RHEL2 sysstat version is 5.0.5-14.21as and this version contains similar changes. So this bug is fixed. Ivana Varekova