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List:       csa
Subject:    Re: CSA Question
From:       Jay Lan <jlan () engr ! sgi ! com>
Date:       2006-01-14 0:04:57
Message-ID: 43C84029.7020800 () engr ! sgi ! com
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Thoi Nguyen wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>
> I'm having problem collecting data from the kernel
> to the CSA programs based on the web page at
> "http://oss.sgi.com/projects/csa/csa_kernel":
>
>   "When a new job is created, the PAGG job code passes information to the
>   CSA code which includes the job id, user id and job start time.
>   This information is used to write a start-of-job accounting record.
>   When the last process within a job exits, the PAGG job code sends
>   information so that an end-of-job accounting record can be written.
>   This information includes the job id, user id, group id, nice value,
> and
>   job start and end times."
>
> When I run "csarun" daily, I only get one line written to
> /var/csa/day/pacct file.
> The contain of that line is the kernel version as the follow:

The most common course of "nothing being recorded" is "no job was started".
Have you modified the pam configuration so that job is initiated
automatically
as configured? You may use jstat (1M)  command to view status of active
jobs.
Most likely it would show no jobs

The job project can be viewed at
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pagg/

Thanks,
 - jay




>
> strings /var/csa/day/pacct
> "d<C
> Linux
> polonius
> 2.6.5-7.191-sn2
> #1 SMP Tue Jun 28 14:58:56 UTC 2005
> ia64
>
>
>
>
> These are the information of our system:
>
>  - Machine: SGI Altix 3000
>  - OS: SUSE Linux enterprise 9
>  - Kernel: Linux  2.6.5-7.191-sn2 #1 SMP Tue Jun 28 14:58:56 UTC 2005
> ia64 ia64 ia64 GNU/Linux
>
> Configuration information:
>
>  - chkconfig --list csa:
>     csa                       0:off  1:off  2:on   3:on   4:off 
> 5:on   6:off
>
>  - chkconfig --list job:
>     job                       0:off  1:off  2:on   3:on   4:off 
> 5:on   6:off
>
>  - lsmod|grep csa:
>     csa                    92896  0
>     job                   121568  4 csa
>
>  - csaswitch -c status:
>     Name      State   Value
>  
>     csa      On
>     nqs      Off
>     wkmg      On
>     tape      Off
>  
>     mem      On
>     io      On
>     memt      Off
>     time      Off
>
>
>
> I greatly appreciate if you could recommend how to fix this problem.
>
>     Best Regards,
>
>     Thoi Nguyen
>        Computer Facility at Stanford University
>
>


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