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

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Message-Id: <20090716151908.f032cfa2.skraw@ithnet.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:19:08 +0200
From:	Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@...net.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.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 13:22:51 -0700 (PDT)
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> 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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