collectl 3.7.4-1 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

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