Gkrellm can show disk activity for each physical partition and/or each physical disk. Well, it doesnt show up with the 2.6.0-pre1 kernel. When you select the "disk" option in the config, it shows up a gray emptiness. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: No drive activity windows. Expected Results: Each partition/drive shoud have a graphic display of activity. Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt encode gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline tetex bonobo svga java guile sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk motif opengl mozilla cdr X alsa cups -gnome qt mysql -kde pda -arts ipv6 gtk2" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
really? I have absolutely no idea why that would happen (which probably doesnt help much ;). At least I can verify that this bug doesnt occur in the latest stable release of gkrellm in portage, which is 2.1.10. I have composite chart in my config and it works perfectly in 2.6 and 2.5 (at least everything since 2.5.67 which is the first 2.5 I remember playing with). Since I am in 2.6.0-test1 and gkrellm is working for me I'll try to see if I can reproduce this with the 2.1.14 release.
works for me (TM). composite chart, hda chart, and hda6 chart all show activity properly when I fgrep my home dir. Try booting up your 2.6 kernel and re-merging, perhaps? Also, this may have to do with your config for the new kernel. You know. What's more likely to have happened is you didnt make the sysfs mountpoint, which is a new fs in 2.5/2.6 designed to take over the procfs overloading we've seen of late. mkdir /sys and reboot, sysfs isnt optional as far as i know so you dont need to recompile. ayanami root # cat /sys/block/hda/hda6/stat 30087 612012 2012 36288 If this filesystem doesnt exist for you, then you need to mkdir /sys which is indeed very important in 2.5/2.6.
Good call Travis Tilley, mkdir /sys did the trick. HEADS UP to the bug-wranglers, this bug can be closed. Possibly add a comment to the end of all new emerges of the 2.6 kernels (or do it automagically) to create a /sys directory.
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