Version & Recent Enhancement Information

The current Version of SarCheck for Solaris SPARC 2.5+ is: 6.02.16
The current Version of SarCheck for Solaris x86 10 is: 6.02.16

Enhancements to version 6.02.16 include:
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• Allow for long zone names in ZoneHound otuput

Enhancements to version 6.02.15 include:
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• Add some code to speed the QA process

Enhancements to version 6.02.14 include:
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• Support reading the 64 bit x86 (amd64) kernel
• If it's Solaris 10, don't make recommendations for lotsfree, desfree, minfree, fastscan, slowscan, priority_paging, and cachefree. According to Sun's Jim Mauro, these parameters should now be left alone because the kernel will get it right.

Enhancements to version 6.02.13 include:
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• More detailed explanations of RSS & CPU numbers collected by ZoneHound(TM)
• Fix a problem when using the -ctd switch
• Fix "multiple peaks of 0.0 percent" for idle tape devices

Enhancements to version 6.02.12 include:
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• Increase the size of the internal table that holds process data collected by ps -elf
• Fix a bug in the "percent full" calculation for the internal table that holds process data collected by ps -elf
• Add text to warn that too many days of ps -elf data are being analyzed at once
• Add -newkey switch

Enhancements to version 6.02.11 include:
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• Change (TM) to (R) or ® at the start of the report
• Scale DNLC hit% to graph in a useful way if dnlc hits/sec is big
• Give the memory bar in the capacity planning graph a tapered end
• Explain the tapered end on the capacity planning graph's mem bar
• Change data & gnuplot scripts for capacity planning and disk %busy bar graphs
• If available, use memory stats from dnlcmon instead of sar -r
• Fix "multiple peaks" messages in summary table when the peak is zero
• Tweak decimal precision for scan rate, totalio peak, etc.
• Clean up -graphdiag output and make it consistent

Enhancements to version 6.02.10 include:
(This is a beta for x86 only)

• Identify SPARC vs. x86 hardware
• Capture psrinfo -p (phys proc) in dnlcmon and report on it

Enhancements to version 6.02.09 include:
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• Fix a bug in disk reporting when the -st switch is used

Enhancements to version 6.02.08 include:
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• Fix a feature designed to prevent buffer overflow attacks which was prematurely truncating directory names specified with the GRAPHDIR keyword in the sarcheck_parms file.

Enhancements to version 6.02.07 include:
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• Fix an file open/close mismatch in the dnlcmon and analyze programs which caused problems only in some versions of Solaris 10

Enhancements to version 6.02.06 include:
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• Support for the output of our ZoneHound analysis tool for Solaris Zones
• Add units used for Total Systemwide I/O in -t table
• Fix a potential problem closing ps -elf data files correctly when multiple days of data are analyzed
• Don't analyze %wio on Solaris 10. The Solaris 10 operating system does not report %wio and always reports a zero instead
• Report the operating systems Solaris 8-10 by that name instead of the 2.8 - 2.10 found in the sar report

Enhancements to version 6.02.04 include:
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• Increase the size of the internal table that holds process data collected by ps -elf
• Remove code to parse ps -ef output. We only collect ps -elf output.
• Ignore the ps -elf line on processes with a command of process "/usr/bin/ps -elf"

Enhancements to version 6.02.03 include:
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• Fix an ncsize reporting error
• Fix a problem limiting the time range of disk data analysis
• Improve the filtering of bad data from sar -d
• Improve the reporting of bad sar data
• Clarify the wording in the report of swap out rate

Enhancements to version 6.02.02 include:
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• Limit the value of ncsize that will be considered normal
• Limit the value of ufs_ninode that will be considered normal and report on values that are too high
• Update text for high disk service times

Enhancements to version 6.02.01 include:
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• Fix a potential bug (but never seen) in the sar -d data collection
• Add -dc* switch info to help text
• Prevent avgbusy from reporting as 0.1 on idle disks
• Rewrite maxpgio algorithm
• Stop false positives in dnlc stat 'find' detection
• Put maxpgio explanation after the paging I/O analysis
• Tweak wording about the size of freemem
• Fix the calculation of multiday fsflush & pageout CPU usage

Enhancements to version 6.02.00 include:
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• Limit reporting of large processes to the first 10
• Limit reporting of runaway processes to the first 10
• Limit reporting of memory leaks to the first 10
• Add -dclp, -dcrp, dcml switches and DCLP, DCRP, DCML parms to control reporting
• Fix ps -elf parsing of extra dnlcmon data
• Read from, report on minimum and maximums, and enhance recommendation algorithms for: ncsize, ninode, fsflushr, maxpgio, handspr, fastscan, slowscan, maxup, autoup, bufhwm, lotsfree, desfree, minfree, memory size, and page size
• Spell out handspreadpages in recommendation
• Various wording and spelling fixes
• Allow for a Directory Name Lookup Cache size of zero
• Report on 32/64 bit operating system w/dnlcmon
• Change maxpgio rec from 65536 to 65535 & add comments
• Calculate the minimum percent of free memory if the memory size changes
• Prevent garbage in DC* parms from being parsed

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