* 0.6.9 - Locarno - release 02/12/2008 - Input text color is now gray (again) - Added external dstat_luster plugin (Brock Palen, Kilian Vavalotti) - Validate integer values in /proc/swaps (Bert de Bruijn) - Added VMware guest dstat_vmmemctl plugin (Bert de Bruijn) - Added internal dstat_fs plugin showing number of open files/inodes - Added internal dstat_socket plugin to show total number of various sockets - Added internal dstat_aio plugin to see number of asynchronous I/O requests - Listing modules (-M list) now also lists internal plugins - Added internal dstat_vm plugin showing page faults, allocations and frees - Added internal dstat_io plugin showing number of completed I/O requests * 0.6.8 - Buenos Aires - release 12/09/2008 - Added improved tick patch (Kelly Long) - Show milliseconds in dstat_time when using --debug cfr. dstat_epoch - Difference in integer rounding should not affect colouring - Fixed the IOError when terminal is suspended and IO is unbuffered (Dbt 309953) - Scheduler accuracy improvements by using sched instead of signal - Added external dstat_snooze plugin (Kelly Long) - Improved dstat_time to accept format string from DSTAT_TIMEFMT (Kelly Long) - Added --pidfile option to write out a pidfile (Kelly Long) - dstat_epoch and dstat_time now display starttime, not execution time of plugin - Fix division by zero problem - Warn when loosing ticks (buffering problems or vmware time sync errors) - Fixed permissions of plugins (Andrew Pollock) - Fixed exception when specifying -I eth0 (Radek Brich) - dstat_int plugin now allows -I total (Radek Brich) - Fixed typo in dstat_topio and dstat_topbio when using CSV output (Bharvani Toshaan) - Added external dstat_net_packets plugin to show the number of packets per interface - Default to 25/80 when terminal height/width is set to zero, eg. XEmacs shell (Jeff Mincy) - Removed complex process name since /proc/pid/cmdline behaves different on new kernels (Adrian Alves) * 0.6.7 - Cambridge overdue - released 26/02/2008 - Only rewrite xterm title when XTERM_SHELL is set to bash - Added more Dbt (Debian bug tracker) ids in the ChangeLog and TODO - Use sys.exit() instead of exit() before color support is detected - Renamed external dstat_app plugin to dstat_topcpu - Added external dstat_topmem plugin - Improved dstat_topcpu CSV output - Fixed a problem with asciidoc DocBook output (Dbt 427214, Michael Ablassmeier) - Report when python-curses is missing and colors don't work (eg. on OpenSUSE) - Improve --version output wrt. terminal and color support - Fixed a few inaccuracies in the man page (John Goggan) - Fixed opening vanished files in /proc in dstat_topcpu - Fixed formatting bug in dstat_topcpu - Added external dstat_mysql_* and dstat_innodb_* plugins - Added greppipe() and matchpipe() to improve performance on pipe-handling - Added external dstat_topio and dstat_topbio plugins - Added external dstat_topoom plugin to show top out-of-memory score - Added external dstat_mysql5_* plugins (Frederic Descamps) - Reinstated the use of -D md0 which got lost (Peter Rabbitson) - Improvement to cpufreq module for SMP systems (Bert de Bruijn) - Added VMware ESX dstat_vmknic plugin (Bert de Bruijn) - Added infrastructure to allow C plugins * 0.6.6 - Unemployed - released 28/04/2007 - Removed SwapCached from the Cached counter (Dbt 418326, Peter Rabbitson) - Fixed a file descriptor problem on kernel 2.4 (Liviu Daia) - Install manpage as part of the make install phase (Scott Baker) - Use SIG_IGN instead of SIG_DFL to disable alarm signal - Improved dev() for kernel 2.4 device names (Dbt 377199, Filippo Giunchedi) - If stdout is not a TTY, don't limit the line length (Jason) * 0.6.5 - Torrox - released 17/04/2007 - Added VMware ESX plugins (Bert de Bruijn) - Added tcp6 and udp6 statistics within dstat_tcp and dstat_udp - Added module readlines() taking care of seek() and multiple files - Improved module exception messages - Fixed a problem with strings and CSV output in dstat_time and dstat_app (Vinod Kutty) - Removed broken dstat_clock plugin (use dstat_time or dstat_epoch) - Disabled the generic exception handling of OSError and IOError to force a stacktrace (supastuff@freenode) * 0.6.4 - Ahoy - released 12/12/2006 - Fixed dstat_clock to use localtime() instead of gmtime() - Added external plugin dstat_vz for openvz cpu statistics - Removed the underscoring of the counter titles - Added underlining for the counter titles - Do not return md and dm devices during disk discovery - Renamed dstat_time plugin to dstat_epoch (-T/--epoch) - Moved dstat_clock plugin into main dstat program as dstat_time (-t/--time) * 0.6.3 - Amsterdam - released 26/06/2006 - Changed default (silver) color of delimiter to gray - Fixed sum() and enumerate() only when it isn't there (Jesse Young) - Added external plugins dstat_app - Added ibm-acpi support to dstat_thermal - Exclude md-devices from total - Improved debug output somewhat - Fixed a battery plugin bug (Christophe Vandeplas) - Added individual swap monitoring (-s with -S) - Small performance improvements - Raise module exceptions when --debug is invoked - Removed the memory-leaking curses implementation (Dbt 336380, supastuff@freenode) - Added dist, rpm and srpm targets to Makefile - Moved documentation to asciidoc at last * 0.6.2 - Cumbernauld - released 08/03/2006 - Fixed situation where no TERM environment variable was set (William Webber) - Print out terminal debug info (TERM env and terminal type) - Added SwapCached value to Cached (Bert de Bruijn) - Added external plugin dstat_clock, a human-readable alternative for dstat_time - Fixed problem with Broken pipe when doing eg. dstat | head -1 (Eike Herzbach) * 0.6.1 - Fishkill - released 05/09/2005 - Look for plugins in ~/.dstat/ too - Added '-M list' to show the list of available modules per path - Fixed a bug in dpopen causing gpfs/gpfsop to fail after a while - Change terminal title (if terminal supports it) - Don't trim the cpulist to 2 items when -f (Sébastien Prud'homme) - Exclude md-devices from total (Dbt 318950, Peter Cordes) - Now accept 'total' keyword with -C (like -D and -N) - Rewrote the path-inserting code - Added asciidoc based manual page - Added external plugin dstat_rpc - Added external plugin dstat_rpcd - Added external plugin dstat_nfs3 - Added external plugin dstat_nfs3op - Added external plugin dstat_nfsd3 - Added external plugin dstat_nfsd3op - Improvements to plugin error handling * 0.6.0 - Bettiesbaai - released 29/05/2005 - Removed keyboard input prevention patch. (Dbt 304673, Marc Lehmann) - Fixed bug with: dstat -tit -I 177 - Added ipc stats (--ipc) - Added lock stats (--lock) - Added raw stats (--raw) - Added unix stats (--unix) - Improved udp stats - Reimplemented -I eth0,ide1 (Bert de Bruijn) - Smarter /proc handling, seek(0) instead of re-open() - Implemented dopen() as a wrapper hash for file descriptors - Small speedup improvements after profiling - Improvement in handling compatible stats (eg. disk, disk24, disk24old) - Added initial values (step=0) for disk, int, page, and sys stats - Allowed external tools to use the dstat classes - Added example scripts using the dstat classes (mstat.py and read.py) - Allowed to interface with external plugins - Added external acpi plugin dstat_battery - Added external acpi plugin dstat_cpufreq - Added external acpi plugin dstat_thermal - Added external app plugin dstat_postfix - Added external app plugin dstat_sendmail - Added external app plugin dstat_gpfs - Added external app plugin dstat_gpfsop - Added external plugin dstat_dbus - Added external plugin dstat_freespace - Added external plugin dstat_utmp - Added external plugin dstat_wifi - Removed user stat (now in external dstat_utmp plugin) - Smaller fixes and overall improvements - Improved help output and manpage - Added README.examples, README.performance and README.plugins - Added profiling/debuging code (--debug) - Rewrote cprint/cprintlist logic - Get rid of python-curses requirement for SLES9 (although it helps to have it) - Fixed dstat_disk24old for newer 2.4 kernels without CONFIG_BLK_STATS (Susan G. Kleinmann) - Improved dstat_disk24 for newer 2.4 kernels with CONFIG_BLK_STATS (Susan G. Kleinmann) - Allow for specifying compatible stats on command line (eg. -M disk24,disk24old,page24) - Make time stat more detailed when --debug is used. - Implemented infrastructure to pipe to commands - Started collecting different proc-files for debugging - Disable headers if less than 6 lines in terminal * 0.5.10 - released 08/04/2005 - Small fix to restore terminal for all exit paths (Dbt 303526, Modesto Alexandre) - Get rid of duplicate 'screen width too small' error message in dstat15 * 0.5.9 - released 28/03/2005 - Make default list total lists (cpu, disk, net) - Fix clearline ANSI to work on older (Debian?) rxvt (Joshua Rodman) - Improved color/vt100 terminal capabilities logic (Dbt 300288, Charles Lepple) - Finally use curses for some of the terminal capabilities logic - Improvement to non-tty handling for intermediate updates - Small fix to handle the edge of the counters better - Prevent keyboard input/echo when running * 0.5.8 - released 15/03/2005 - Added user stats (-u), using python-utmp - Bail out if all requested stats fail - Replaced --noheader option by --noheaders option (like vmstat) - Added -V as short for --version - Improved help output - Allow CSV output and human output concurrently - Removed --csv option (now use --output option) - Added gnome to known ANSI capable terminal emulation - Replaced save and restore ANSI to save and restore VT100 (Olav Vitters) - Backported dstat to python 1.5 again * 0.5.7 - released 31/12/2004 - Change Makefile to not install when run without target (Kurt Roeckx) - Fixed another crash caused by /proc instability - Added --csv option to output Comma-Seperated-Value output - If output is not a tty, don't care about line-width * 0.5.6 - released 20/12/2004 - Made sys and int stats unit-aware (so 10000 int/sec -> 10.0k) (Anton Blanchard) - Improve conv() function and stat show() functions - Improved the calculation of the cpu usage - cpu stats will now show hardirq and softirq by default if possible (Anton Blanchard) - Color cpu, proc, tcp and udp stats too - Don't clear the line after restoring the cursor at the start (disable flickering) - Better formatting for load and proc stats - cpu stats are not longer snapshots but average over delay - Fix for diskless systems (Werner Augustin) - Gracefully handle incorrect arguments - Important changes to header-model - Added smp support (Bert de Bruijn) - proc stats now show averages - Check if output is a tty, else disable colors and updates - Fixed bug in interrupt stats on smp systems (Bert de Bruijn) - Improved interrupt stats (Bert de Bruijn) - Improvement in output, 10.0k or 5.0 will be displayed simply as 10k or 5 - proc stats now show floats * 0.5.5 - released 02/12/2004 - In fact, round() was not the problem, use str() instead. (Anton Blanchard) - Abandoned the use of round() as it is limited to integers (Juergen Kreileder) * 0.5.4 - released 25/10/2004 - Added a python 1.5 version of dstat (Ville Herva) - Fixed a problem with count - Improved the logic for displaying repetitive headers - Now --nocolor implies --noupdate (since it implies no ANSI escape sequences) - Removed the 'Exiting on user request' message * 0.5.3 - released 21/10/2004 - Added -M or --mods option to allow modules - Added --full option to expand the -D, -I and -N discovery lists - Re-added the number of new processes (the --vmstat will no longer resemble vmstat) - More intelligent way of ordering stats to fit as much in screen width as possible - Fixed a crash when counters overflow (Francois Postaire) - Added manpage, kindly donated by Andrew Pollock - Added --tcp and --udp stats (may be improved later ?) - Fixes to disk24old and new cpu24 (for Debian 2.4.26 kernel) - Signal handling cleanup - Partitions are excluded from discovery on 2.4 kernels * 0.5.2 - released 13/10/2004 - Improved disk and net discovery functions (Ville Herva) - Fixed a bug with values when using --noupdate (Pasi Pirhonen) - Documented the internals a bit more, hoping people will contribute - Implemented a fix for when the output exceeds terminal columns * 0.5.1 - released 11/10/2004 - Fixed bug that caused counters to not be averages when delay > 1 - Added time stats (-t) * 0.5 - released 11/10/2004 - Changed some more int()'s into long()'s (Pasi Pirhonen) - Fixed the cpu out of index, /proc instability (Pasi Pirhonen) - Improved the rounding function - Added --integer, to get earlier 'integer value' behaviour - Added --noheader option to only see header at start - Unbuffered sys.stdout and added ANSI colors - Added --nocolor to disable newly introduced colors - Added --noupdate to disable intermediate updates when delay > 1 - When counters roll over, show dash - Fixed 2 crash bugs caused by /proc instability * 0.4 - released 26/10/2004 - Added interrupt stats (-i) - Order of the stats adhere the order of the options - Interval more precise, using signals instead of sleep - Modular rewrite using classes - Added -D, -I and -N options to customize list - Allow to specify 'total' for -D and -N to get aggregated numbers - Added --vmstat option, vmstat alike output - Implemented a basic network, interrupt and disk 'discovery' function - Replaced hardcoded 4096 by resource.getpagesize() - Added enumerate() for python < 2.3, and rewrote/removed it again - Check for support of proc filesystem and entries - Fixes for kernel 2.4 support (disk and paging) - Count number of CPUs (for kernel 2.4 disk support) - Titles are now truncated to max-1 - Show header when it disappears from screen - Allow to specify interrupt by device eg. -I eth0,acpi or -I ide0,yenta - Fix disk stats bug related to RHEL3 U3 iostat bug on 2.4 (RHbz 137595, Charlie Bennett) - Uncommented old 2.4 disk stats functionality (see source for enabling it) - Initial public release * 0.3 - Added load stats (-l) - Added memory stats (-m) - Output now fits into space and adds unit - Converted all values to bytes * 0.2 - Added disk io stats (-d) - Added proc stats (-p) - Important layout changes * 0.1 - Initial release
