Why does turbostat exits with “Invalid Counter name“ when --show contains any of column from sysfs c-state counter?
Issue
- Why does
turbostat
exits with Invalid Counter name when--show
contains any of column from sysfs c-state counter?
# turbostat --list
usec,Time_Of_Day_Seconds,Package,Core,CPU,APIC,X2APIC,Avg_MHz,Busy%,Bzy_MHz,TSC_MHz,IPC,IRQ,SMI,POLL,C1,C1E,C3,C6,POLL%,C1%,C1E%,C3%,C6%,CPU%c1,CPU%c3,CPU%c6,CPU%c7,CoreTmp,PkgTmp,Pkg%pc2,Pkg%pc3,PkgWatt,RAMWatt,PKG_%,RAM_%
# turbostat --list --show sysfs
POLL,C1,C1E,C3,C6,POLL%,C1%,C1E%,C3%,C6%
# for i in `turbostat --list --show sysfs|sed 's/,/ /g'`;do turbostat --show $i;done
Invalid counter name: POLL
Invalid counter name: C1
Invalid counter name: C1E
Invalid counter name: C3
Invalid counter name: C6
Invalid counter name: POLL%
Invalid counter name: C1%
Invalid counter name: C1E%
Invalid counter name: C3%
Invalid counter name: C6%
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
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