does not work with RHEL-3.0, Suse SLES8 or any 2.4-based kernel?
This version of pfmon is meant to be used ONLY with a perfmon-2.x kernel interface which is available only in the 2.6 kernel series. • Pfmon-2.0 does not work with my 2.6.x kernel? This version of pfmon is meant to be used with the perfmon-1.x kernel interface ONLY. The 2.6.x kernels all have the next generation perfmon-2.x interface which is not backward compatible with perfmon-1.x. You need to use pfmon-3.0 with 2.6.x kernels. • Pfmon-2.0 does not work with RHEL-3.0? The official RHEL-3.0 includes a bogus kernel perfmon-1.x subsystem. It is strongly recommended NOT to use it until a patch is provided in the subsequent updates to RHEL. • Linux kernel perfmon-1.3 or higher can exclude idle tasks, does pfmon support this? Yes, with pfmon-2.0 you can use the –exclude-idle option for system wide sessions. This possiblity to exclude idle tasks is not yet available with the perfmon-2.x kernel interface, therefore pfmon-3.0 does not offer the –exclude-idle option on the 2.6.0 kernel. • Pfm
