1. VSD 5.4.2 Release Notes
Overview
Visual Statistics Display (VSD) version 5.4.2 is a maintenance release of the VSD product. v5.4.1 was a limited distribution release; these Release Notes includes all fixes in both 5.4.1 and 5.4.2.
In addition to bug fixes, there are additional statistics definitions, for statistics added in recent server releases.
This version of VSD, like previous versions, supports statmonitor files generated from:
Supported Platforms
VSD version 5.4.2 is verified and supported on the following platforms:
- Windows 7, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows 10, and Windows 2012
- Solaris 10 and 11 on SPARC, and Solaris 10 on x86
- AIX 6.1 and AIX 7.1
- Red Hat Linux ES 6.4, 6.5, 6.7, 6.9, 7.1, and 7.4; Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04; SUSE Linux Enterprise 12, on x86
- OS X 10.11.2 (El Capitan)/Darwin 15.2.0, OS X 10.12.6 (Sierra)/Darwin 16.7.0, and OS X 10.13.2 (High Sierra)/Darwin 17.3.0, on x86
32-bit VSD executables no longer distributed
32-bit VSD executables are no longer generated or distributed with GemStone/S 64 Bit releases nor as independent downloads. All VSD executables are now 64-bit.
With VSD v5.4 and GemStone/S 64 Bit v3.5, the 32-bit executables VSD executables were generated and available, but deprecated.
Changes in this release
A number of statistics definitions have been added, to support cache statistics added in unreleased versions of GemStone/S 64 Bit.
VSD command line cannot load files containing ’-h’ or other arguments
If a filename passed in on the vsd command line contains the character sequence ’-h’, ’-H’, ’-v’, or ’-V’, it is interpreted as the command line argument for the help screen or version information, and VSD does not start. (#48316)