On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 03:34:15PM +0800, 李菲 wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 3:32 AM Marc Haber <mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 06:56:33PM +0800, 李菲 wrote:
> > > wrote:
> > > I guess the below 'Reproduce' can tell this :) That is, if atop starts
> > > before
> > > atopacctd, it will read from /var/cache/atop.d/atop.acct. Instead, if
> > > atopacctd
> > > starts earlier, atop will read from /run/pacct_shadow.d/0000000000.paf
> > > which is generated by atopacctd.
> >
> > Is this a race condition that only occurs once in a while? I tried it
> > three times now on a test system and all three times it ended up with
> > atop reading from the .paf file right after reboot.
> >
> You mean reboot the machine? I am wondering why rebooting
> is needed after installing atop.

It is not. I just tried to reproduce your issue.

> I did the following check just
> after installing atop without rebooting the machine. :)
> As for the reboot, I am inclined to the problem is corrected
> after rebooting, mainly due to the "Before=atop.service"
> in atopacct.service file.

So I need to de- and reinstall atop to reproduce this?

Greetings
Marc

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