Christoph The CONFIG_DISK_STATS is enabled and yet still not stats. Any ideas.. Here is the info from the stat file under /proc. The partition file is below.
cpu 98 0 96 5973 cpu0 98 0 96 5973 page 12904 2480 swap 1 0 intr 0 disk_io: ctxt 1338 btime 1058548498 processes 194 /proc/partitions info major minor #blocks name 94 0 1440000 dasd/0150/disc 94 1 1439904 dasd/0150/part1 94 4 100000 dasd/0151/disc 94 5 99999 dasd/0151/part1 Bob Nakagawa -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems with sysstat package on Debian On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:37:55AM -0600, Hodge, Robert L wrote: > I'm having problems with the sysstat package on the Debian 3.01 > distribution. "sar -b" is returning all zeroes for disk activity and > "iostat" is not reporting anything for disk. It looks like iostat is > not finding any disks. I've searched the archives of this list and > other lists with no positive results. I've done numerous web searches > with no results. I've upgraded the sysstat package to 4.1.2 from 4.0.4 > with no resolution to the problem. I've upgraded the Linux kernel to > 2.4.21 from 2.4.17 with no resolution to the problem. Do you have CONFIG_DISK_STATS enabled in the kernel? Please post the output of /proc/stat and /proc/partitions on your system.