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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0907151321030.22582@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:22:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@...net.com>
cc:	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>
Subject: Re: What to do with this message (2.6.30.1) ?

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
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