Re: What to do with this message (2.6.30.1) ?

From: Stephan von Krawczynski
Date: Thu Jul 16 2009 - 09:19:21 EST


On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:22:51 -0700 (PDT)
David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
>
> > Ok, so I just found out that slabtop -o outputs a lot of ANSI code by
> > redirecting it, that output is merely unreadable. Can some kind soul please
> > tell the author that formatting ANSI output in -o option makes no sense at
> > all. top btw does not do this (top -b -n 1).
> > I will produce your logs, but you will have a hard time reading that trash ...
> >
>
> This is fixed in the latest release of procps[*], so maybe you could
> upgrade before generating the output? If not, simply sending
> /proc/slabinfo would be better.
>
> [*] https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0950.html
>

Perhaps they also fixed this output, starting slabtop from cron:

tcgetattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Error opening terminal: unknown.

We had no logs tonight because of this, nevertheless the problem itself is
still there, so we better produce cat /proc/slabinfo as a start ...

--
Regards,
Stephan

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