Binary data obtained by 'sar' command on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 cannot be formatted correctly on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3

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Issue

  • Binary data obtained by 'sar' command on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 cannot be formatted correctly on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3.
On a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 system: sar -A 3 3 -f sar.6.2.bin > sar.6.2.txt-6.2.txt
On a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 system: sar -A 3 3 -f sar.6.2.bin > sar.6.2.txt-6.4.txt

* sar.6.2.bin is a data of sar on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 system.

# diff -u sar.6.2.txt-6.2.txt sar.6.2.txt-6.4.txt
--- sar.6.2.txt-6.2.txt 2013-05-31 11:43:34.546103159 +0900
+++ sar.6.2.txt-6.4.txt 2013-05-31 11:43:53.034103139 +0900
@@ -1071,10 +1071,10 @@
 Average:         0.00    287.87   3592.97      0.00   6278.70      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00

 05:00:10          tps      rtps      wtps   bread/s   bwrtn/s
-05:00:13        30.25      0.00     30.25      0.00    606.37
-05:00:16        29.81      0.00     29.81      0.00    568.94
-05:00:19        28.41      0.00     28.41      0.00    554.20
-Average:        29.46      0.00     29.46      0.00    575.74
+05:00:13        30.25    606.37      0.00      0.00      0.00
+05:00:16        29.81    568.94      0.00      0.00      0.00
+05:00:19        28.41    554.20      0.00      0.00      0.00
+Average:        29.46    575.74      0.00      0.00      0.00

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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