Hello All,
There will be a new version of "collect" available tomorow on:
ftp.digital.com:/pub/DEC/collect/COLLECT108aSETLD.tar
ftp.digital.de:/pub/DEC/collect/COLLECT108aSETLD.tar (Germany)
Since I just packaged this kit, it will automatically be copied to
ftp.digital.com tonight, and to ftp.digital.de the day after.
This version has many improvements, including a new tape subsystem, a
new message queue subsystem, new options such as datafile conversion,
and some bugs have been fixed (for example core dumps due to the presence
of a SCSI floppy drive). A few bugs have also been fixed in the output
filter script, 'cfilt'. There are many improvements in the GUI.
>From CHANGES:
May, 1997 (1.07 - 1.08):
collect:
o added a Tape subsystem for statistics about SCSI tape drives
o added message queue subsystem
o fixed an 'oversight' by which collect wasn't able to seek to
the last record when the records were > 32K. Records can be up
to 256K before this causes problems.
o raid disks can now also be specified using -DreX,reY,...
o total flag (-T) now causes totals for disks and tapes to be
displayed
o added -PP<pid-list>, -PC<command-list>, -PU<uid-list> options to
allow collection for processes having specified parent-PIDS or
belonging to specified process-group (-PP), having specified
string in command (-PC), or owned by specified UID (-PU).
o fixed bug when using the '-n' switch in playback mode.
o added support for regular expressions for the -L and -D flags
o added ability to 'convert' version 7 (collect V1.07) datafiles
to version 8 (collect V1.08), and simultaneously extract records
for a particular interval and select subsystems.
o changed absolute memory values from pages to MB
o disk and tape counting (for data structure allocation) and
discovery has been made consistent. A side-effect of this is
that a SCSI floppy drive will no longer cause collect to dump
core. (it was not being counted, but was being discovered, so
collect tried to write data into non-existent data structures).
cfilt:
o fixed bug in cfilt which caused problems with uppercase letters
in names (such as LSM volumes).
collgui:
o added new selection mechanism for lists of objects longer than can
be displayed in a popup menu
o added a new selection mechanism for processes
o added a file browser for opening files
o added image file output (jpeg, ppm, pbm)
Rob Urban (urban_at_rto.dec.com)
Received on Wed Jun 11 1997 - 14:46:30 NZST