collectl (3.7.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release 3.7.4
* typo in $netFilt (should have been $netFiltIgnore) preventing any
network from being included in totals when *-netfilt specified, but
also made me rethink the way summaries are calculalted (see next item)
* 2 more network types were discovered to be causing double counting
in summaries, specifically vibr and vnets. since the exceptions occur
at a far greater rate it was decided that rather than have a default list
of those network types to exclude from the summaries, it makes far more
sense to have a list with those that SHOULD be included as well as a
mechanism for handling new summary types. This led to a reinterpretation
of *-netfilt. see the man page and Network.html for more details
* removed references to XC, which is no longer supported
* use abs to generate path to exe, simpler and cleaner [thanks Jeff]
* extended the way formatit is loaded and changed the order that collectl.conf
is discovered, noting it should only effect people actually modifying
code or moving things to non*standard locations. it IS now documented
in Startup and Initialization. [thanks again, Jeff]
* set max lines to read for diskstats to 20000 for those with real large
disk counts where 10000 wasn't enough [thanks jean*marc]
* very rare, but if doing timing and no hires present, $microInterval gets set
to zero and the division by the interval blows up
* finally remembered to remove -G and --group which were replaced by --tworaw
* clarified description of -s defaults in manpage as well as adding a
pointer to the online documentation on file naming [thanks rob]
* added additional error message for when files match selection string
but none contain *date-time.raw [thanks rob]
* add support for newer kernel CPU stats: guest, guest_nice
* now that 2.4 kernels no longer supported, make sure CPU stats contain
at least softirq field
* change headers with % to PCT and remove space, also remove whitespace in
interrupt detail output for type and devices columns [thanks rob]
* new switch --ALL, selects summary and detail data for all subsystems
[thanks rob]
* new switch --full, selects --verbose, always includes RECORD separator and
includes which subsystem data is being reported with each interval in
the RECORD header to make parsing easier for rob [thanks rob]
* if you DON'T collect tcp data but want to play it back, variables weren't
initialized to 0 and you get uninit variable warnings
* if disk name ends with a digit (can only happen when manually changing
disk filtering in either collectl.conf or with *-rawdskfilt, don't
include in disk summary stats [thanks guy]
* discovered a place where some numa counters go backwards! This MUST be a
kernel bug but inserted code to mitigate and warn if it happens [thanks rob]
* removed a line of code incorrectly initializing $HCAPosts[] because that is
now a doubly indexed array [thanks Jeff]
* discovered tap devices don't set default network speeds correctly and can
cause 'bogus' messages so use default max
* make 'Intrpt' header mixed case for CPU details, not all upper
* new 3rd option for --top, allows one to display the top-n processes sorted
by any column vertically, similar to playback mode, which in some cases
can be very handy
* if only 1 tcp subtype selected with --tcpfilt, was printing column
header of ERR and I've no idea why. Changed it to TCP.
* I didn't like --tcpfilt I by itself forcing --verbose so changed it to just
being in the *-tcpfilt string will force it and updated man page as well
since *-tcpfilt wasn't even documented in it
* As warned I'm in the process of direct support for lustre and you should
contact Peter Piela at TeraScala to get a copy of his lustre plugin.
Therefore *sl is being removed as a default. To get collectl's native
lustre support in daemon mode, you must add it to *s. Native support will
be completely removed around the summer of 2015.
-- Troy Heber <email address hidden> Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:13:36 -0600
