Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756494AbZGPNTP (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:19:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756296AbZGPNTO (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:19:14 -0400 Received: from mail-a04.ithnet.com ([217.64.83.99]:44890 "HELO ithnet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756230AbZGPNTN (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:19:13 -0400 X-Sender-Authentication: net64 Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:19:08 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: David Rientjes Cc: Jesse Brandeburg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Justin Piszcz Subject: Re: What to do with this message (2.6.30.1) ? Message-Id: <20090716151908.f032cfa2.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20090713134621.124aa18e.skraw@ithnet.com> <4807377b0907132240g6f74c9cbnf1302d354a0e0a72@mail.gmail.com> <20090715084754.36ff73bf.skraw@ithnet.com> <20090715114605.42a354c0.skraw@ithnet.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1304 Lines: 36 On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:22:51 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/