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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'>Curiously, I don't find this 'feature' within the 6.5 system I just created last week. Are there any settings you'd like to compare? My report shows the hours AM then PM then changes to the next category.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'>Bill Watson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'><a href="mailto:bill@magicdigits.com">bill@magicdigits.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> rhelv6-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces@redhat.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Iain Morrison<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 04, 2014 11:21 AM<br><b>To:</b> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [rhelv6-list] sar<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Andy,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> if it’s not just our systems I’ll log a BugZilla report. In a month I suspect sar will show data for 3 days!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>iain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--<br><br>Iain Morrison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>IT Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>MRC Epidemiology Unit<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Box 285 Institute of Metabolic Science<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cambridge Biomedical Campus<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cambridge<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>CB2 0QQ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tel 01223 769200<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces@redhat.com">rhelv6-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [<a href="mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Feldt, Andrew N.<br><b>Sent:</b> 04 March 2014 16:53<br><b>To:</b> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [rhelv6-list] sar<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Iain, <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I am seeing the same on all of my systems. There is not a log rotate issue since the appropriate files are created each day. However, a sar report runs through the hours twice.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Andy<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#AD4213'>Andy Feldt</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#0C1C8D'>Senior System Support Programmer</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#0C1C8D'>Affiliate Assistant Professor</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics & Astronomy</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>The University of Oklahoma</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>On Mar 4, 2014, at 7:22 AM, Iain Morrison <<a href="mailto:Iain.Morrison@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk">Iain.Morrison@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear List,</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> since 1<sup>st</sup><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>March 2014 sar has been behaving oddly on all our RHEL 6.5 systems</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The files /var/log/sa/sad and /var/log/sa/sardd are twice as big as normal and sar reports on two days’ worth of data.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It looks like the sa/sar files are being appended rather than overwritten. Is anyone else seeing this?</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>thanks</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>iain</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--<br><br>Iain Morrison</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>IT Manager</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>MRC Epidemiology Unit</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Box 285 Institute of Metabolic Science</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cambridge Biomedical Campus</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cambridge</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>CB2 0QQ</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tel 01223 769200</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>_______________________________________________<br>rhelv6-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:rhelv6-list@redhat.com"><span style='color:purple'>rhelv6-list@redhat.com</span></a><br><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list"><span style='color:purple'>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>