On 27.8.2009 17:15, Sergio Belkin wrote: > 2009/8/27 Filipe Brandenburger<filbranden at gmail.com>: > >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:46, Sergio Belkin<sebelk at gmail.com> 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