Arnau Bria wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to install & run iotop in my SL5 & SL4 boxes. Seems that I
> won't be able to run it in sl4 as it requires python 2.4.
> 
> As it's not part of SL5 release I've downloaded it from it's site
> (http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/) and tried to run it like ./iotop.py but
> it inmediatly complains about :
> 
> CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT not enabled in kernel, cannot determine SWAPIN and IO %
> 
> grepping that at /boot/config-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 seems that the option
> is enabled by default in our current kernel:
> 
> # uname -r
> 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
> 
> # grep TASK_DELAY_ACCT config-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
> CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT=y
> 
> same happens with other mandatory kernel options:
> 
> # grep CONFIG_TASKSTATS config-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
> CONFIG_TASKSTATS=y
> # grep TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING config-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
> CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING=y
> # grep CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS config-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
> CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS=y
> 
> 
> so, at this point I'm a bit confused and not sure if the problem is at
> app or I'm assuming something wrong with kernel's conf file.
> 
> So, I'd like to ask other admin if someone is running that application
> in a sl5 box? if yes, any trick at installation time? 
> 
> TIA,
> Arnau

iotop is available in the EPEL repository for RHEL5/SL5.  I just tested 
it and it works correctly.

http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/epel/5/i386/iotop-0.4.1-2.el5.noarch.rpm

Troy
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