Hello,
I have some 'unofficial' patches for V2.00 of collect that
can be applied to the sources. Here is a short summary of the problems:
o due to process-slot re-use over long collection periods, the 'SysTim'
and 'UsrTim' fields in the process subsystem can be wildly wrong.
o in V5.1 PIDs can be much larger than in previous versions. This is not
supported in the current version of collect.
o 'SysTim' and 'UsrTim' were stored in units of centiseconds, which was
too inaccurate for some purposes. The fix is to make the units microseconds.
o on a heavily-loaded system using a short collection interval (< 2 secs or so),
the current version could go to sleep and not wake up for hours.
o the '-l' flag (playback) would fail for very large binary records.
(for example: > 1000 procs or > 100 disks).
If you're interested in the patches, send a mail to <urban_at_spielwiese.de>.
Rob Urban
Received on Wed Jul 12 2000 - 19:26:04 NZST