ANNOUNCE: collect-2.0 fixes (2)

From: Robert Urban <urban_at_unix-beratung.de>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 03:48:56 +0200

Hello,

I have made the patched sources available at:

        http://www.unix-wissen.de/collect/collect-2.0.html

please see the web page for a complete list of fixes.

Rob Urban

---------------------- Original Mail -------------------------

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 microsecond
s.

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 Sun Jul 30 2000 - 01:51:11 NZST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed Nov 08 2023 - 11:53:41 NZDT