On 27.8.2009 17:15, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> 2009/8/27 Filipe Brandenburger<filbranden@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:46, Sergio Belkin<sebelk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Jim, thanks for the suggestion, but Firstly: I need a newer kernel in
>>> order to get IO statistics from tools like atop, pidstat, etc. And
>>> secondly and most important: my boss wants that :)
>>>
>> Then CentOS is not what you want.
>>
>> There is a reason why RHEL/CentOS does not ship with the latest kernel
>> (and other components) and backports fixes instead. It's not trivial
>> to make different versions of these components work together. If you
>> try to replace the kernel (or other core components) you will see how
>> painful it is. In fact, you started to see it already. You may try to
>> continue to go that way, but I doubt anyone in this list will be able
>> to help you there... you're pretty much on your own.
>>
>>
>>> So I'd be glad to hear other kind of solution :)
>>>
>> Look at the latest Fedora or Ubuntu or another one of the "cutting
>> edge" distributions that ship with more recent versions of components.
>>
>> Or ask yourself (or your boss) *WHY* you think you really need a later
>> version of a certain component. What is your real problem? Is it
>> support to a certain hardware? Is it network related? Is it
>> (unfounded) fear that the kernel in CentOS might be vulnerable? It
>> might be possible to solve your problem using CentOS in another way,
>> if you come back to the list with the real problem we might be able to
>> help you better.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Felipe
>>
> I've just explained the reason why I've compiled.
>
>
>
IO statistics by process will be included in 5.4....You could try to use
the RHEL 5.4 beta kernels (Just remember, those are beta....).
Bgrds,
Finnzi
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