<quote who="nate"> > mail:~# uptime > Unknown HZ value! (0) Assume 100. > 1:31pm up 249 days, 2:39, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.03, > 0.01
did some more research and it seems it is a bug in the kernel, but procps detects it and spits out the message. the procps in woody claims to have a fix that disables this behavior from the changelog:(2.0.7-6) "A warning when libproc cannot calculate the HZ value (probably due to a kernel bug) has been supressed by default because it broke people's scripts unnecessarily." however, the warning is not disabled by default. i compiled it on a potato box and installed it and still had the error. so i grepped the source and deleted the 1 line of code that spit out the error, recompiled, reinstalled and its working now! [EMAIL PROTECTED] the line was proc/sysinfo.c line 165: proc/sysinfo.c:165: fprintf(stderr, "Unknown HZ value! (%ld) Assume %ld.\n", h, Hertz); i say worked around instead of solved since its still seems its a kernel bug that goes back a long ways(i saw a post from ben collins when he was running 2.2.6 or something and had the same error) i saw some discussion for a procps HZ patch on a redhat mailing list with similar info, just mentioned a way to turn off the warning but it was still considered a bug in the kernel. maybe my mrtg scripts will inverse again to show proper data once again! i hope .. nate
