If you run slabtop with the -d option and then -o option the
delay gets set to zero and it runs forever. slabtop now checks
for this combination and errors.
Adding a DEJAGNU test also found that none of the slabtop
checks were running so they got added to the list and only the
ones that need /proc/slabinfo (if not readable) are skipped.
References:
#160
There is a race condition between expect script consuming the output
from slabtop. There were a sequences of lines that looked like
^\d+ ... \s*
with the last \s* consuming the first space on the start of the line.
However if the line takes too long to print, then expect stops there and
the space at the start of the subsquent line does not match.
The solution is a \s* at the start ofthe line.
procps works well on Linux, on other arches there are some strange
differences due to their emulation of procfs which is not 100%
Disabling checks for non-linux until that can be sorted out.
Craig Small
Craig Small