Bug Fix Advisory sysstat bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2008:0666-7
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2008-07-24
Last updated on: 2008-07-24
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

An updated sysstat package that fixes various bugs is now available.

The sysstat package provides the sar and iostat commands. These commands
enable system monitoring of disk, network, and other I/O activity.

This updated sysstat package includes fixes for the following bugs:

* sysstat was not able to monitor the system status at intervals of one
second in length.

* the sar command would show inaccurate CPU usage information on machines
with long uptimes due to several variable overflows.

* the sar utility would report an inaccurate total CPU time total for all
CPUs combined ("all") under certain situations in multi-processor situations.

* in a system under heavy load, the sadc utility would sometimes ouput the
following error message: "Cannot write data to system activity file:
Success." In this updated package, the sadc utility successfully writes the
remaining input, thus resolving this issue.

All users of sysstat are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves these issues.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)

SRPMS:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.src.rpm     c071395e102d698786b1927ae8be0605
 
IA-32:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.i386.rpm     0deadc1f46d1a033ee5458e731586587
 
x86_64:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.x86_64.rpm     5a2be77292cdcfcc0ece626d96d5b828
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.src.rpm     c071395e102d698786b1927ae8be0605
 
IA-32:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.i386.rpm     0deadc1f46d1a033ee5458e731586587
 
IA-64:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.ia64.rpm     bcff2cb386de1d0863b8f92550fd3767
 
PPC:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.ppc.rpm     2a5db1449856e5c4783841eff82c0d24
 
s390:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.s390.rpm     9976816b453bf1db746471e67a804640
 
s390x:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.s390x.rpm     bc026fc0b94368ab531c54c3b00a89ac
 
x86_64:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.x86_64.rpm     5a2be77292cdcfcc0ece626d96d5b828
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.src.rpm     c071395e102d698786b1927ae8be0605
 
IA-32:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.i386.rpm     0deadc1f46d1a033ee5458e731586587
 
IA-64:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.ia64.rpm     bcff2cb386de1d0863b8f92550fd3767
 
x86_64:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.x86_64.rpm     5a2be77292cdcfcc0ece626d96d5b828
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.src.rpm     c071395e102d698786b1927ae8be0605
 
IA-32:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.i386.rpm     0deadc1f46d1a033ee5458e731586587
 
IA-64:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.ia64.rpm     bcff2cb386de1d0863b8f92550fd3767
 
x86_64:
sysstat-5.0.5-19.el4.x86_64.rpm     5a2be77292cdcfcc0ece626d96d5b828
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Keywords

sadc, sar


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