Re: LatencyTop problem

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Oct 18 2008 - 13:37:54 EST


On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:49:18 +0200
Mauro Andreolini <mauro.andreolini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I tried to get latencytop (Debian testing package, v.0.4) running on a
> 2.6.27 vanilla kernel. When I try to execute latencytop as root, I get
> the following message:
>
> Error writing to /proc/sys/kernel/latencytop: No such file or
> directory Error writing to /proc/sys/kernel/latencytop: No such file
> or directory Are you root?
> Please enable the CONFIG_LATENCYTOP configuration in your kernel.
> Exiting...
>
> I am pretty sure that the CONFIG_LATENCYTOP is set in the kernel.

I just tried, and the file exists just fine for me... I think there's
something weird going on with your kernel, like you might not be
running the kernel you thought you were running...

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