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Tracking I/O Time For Each File Read or Write" /></head><body><p id="title"><a class="left" href="http://www.fedoraproject.org"><img src="Common_Content/images/image_left.png" alt="Product Site" /></a><a class="right" href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org"><img src="Common_Content/images/image_right.png" alt="Documentation Site" /></a></p><ul class="docnav"><li class="previous"><a accesskey="p" href="useful-systemtap-scripts.html"><strong>Prev</strong></a></li><li class="next"><a accesskey="n" href="iotimesect.html"><strong>Next</strong></a></li></ul><div class="section" id="mainsect-disk"><div class="titlepage"><div><div keep-together.within-column="always"><h2 class="title" id="mainsect-disk">5.2. Disk</h2></div></div></div><div class="para"> The following sections showcase scripts that monitor disk and I/O activity. </div><div xml:lang="en-US" class="section" id="disktop" lang="en-US"><div class="titlepage"><div><div keep-together.within-column="always"><h3 class="title" id="disktop">5.2.1. Summarizing Disk Read/Write Traffic</h3></div></div></div><a id="idm20960280" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idp11392272" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idm2805456" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idp37239960" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idm2973288" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idp7594272" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idp9544424" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idp8634560" class="indexterm"></a><div class="para"> This section describes how to identify which processes are performing the heaviest disk reads/writes to the system. </div><div class="formalpara" id="scriptdisktop"><h5 class="formalpara">disktop.stp</h5> <pre class="programlisting">#!/usr/bin/env stap # # Copyright (C) 2007 Oracle Corp. # # Get the status of reading/writing disk every 5 seconds, # output top ten entries # # This is free software,GNU General Public License (GPL); # either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. # # Usage: # ./disktop.stp # global io_stat,device global read_bytes,write_bytes probe vfs.read.return { if ($return>0) { if (devname!="N/A") {/*skip read from cache*/ io_stat[pid(),execname(),uid(),ppid(),"R"] += $return device[pid(),execname(),uid(),ppid(),"R"] = devname read_bytes += $return } } } probe vfs.write.return { if ($return>0) { if (devname!="N/A") { /*skip update cache*/ io_stat[pid(),execname(),uid(),ppid(),"W"] += $return device[pid(),execname(),uid(),ppid(),"W"] = devname write_bytes += $return } } } probe timer.ms(5000) { /* skip non-read/write disk */ if (read_bytes+write_bytes) { printf("\n%-25s, %-8s%4dKb/sec, %-7s%6dKb, %-7s%6dKb\n\n", ctime(gettimeofday_s()), "Average:", ((read_bytes+write_bytes)/1024)/5, "Read:",read_bytes/1024, "Write:",write_bytes/1024) /* print header */ printf("%8s %8s %8s %25s %8s %4s %12s\n", "UID","PID","PPID","CMD","DEVICE","T","BYTES") } /* print top ten I/O */ foreach ([process,cmd,userid,parent,action] in io_stat- limit 10) printf("%8d %8d %8d %25s %8s %4s %12d\n", userid,process,parent,cmd, device[process,cmd,userid,parent,action], action,io_stat[process,cmd,userid,parent,action]) /* clear data */ delete io_stat delete device read_bytes = 0 write_bytes = 0 } probe end{ delete io_stat delete device delete read_bytes delete write_bytes } </pre> </div><div class="para"> <a class="xref" href="mainsect-disk.html#scriptdisktop">disktop.stp</a> outputs the top ten processes responsible for the heaviest reads/writes to disk. <a class="xref" href="mainsect-disk.html#disktopoutput">Example 5.6, “disktop.stp Sample Output”</a> displays a sample output for this script, and includes the following data per listed process: </div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul><li class="listitem"><div class="para"> <code class="computeroutput">UID</code> — user ID. A user ID of <code class="computeroutput">0</code> refers to the root user. </div></li><li class="listitem"><div class="para"> <code class="computeroutput">PID</code> — the ID of the listed process. </div></li><li class="listitem"><div class="para"> <code class="computeroutput">PPID</code> — the process ID of the listed process's <span class="emphasis"><em>parent process</em></span>. </div></li><li class="listitem"><div class="para"> <code class="computeroutput">CMD</code> — the name of the listed process. </div></li><li class="listitem"><div class="para"> <code class="computeroutput">DEVICE</code> — which storage device the listed process is reading from or writing to. </div></li><li class="listitem"><div class="para"> <code class="computeroutput">T</code> — the type of action performed by the listed process; <code class="computeroutput">W</code> refers to write, while <code class="computeroutput">R</code> refers to read. </div></li><li class="listitem"><div class="para"> <code class="computeroutput">BYTES</code> — the amount of data read to or written from disk. </div></li></ul></div><a id="idp8198664" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idp10539016" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idp2381840" class="indexterm"></a><div class="para"> The time and date in the output of <a class="xref" href="mainsect-disk.html#scriptdisktop">disktop.stp</a> is returned by the functions <code class="command">ctime()</code> and <code class="command">gettimeofday_s()</code>. <code class="command">ctime()</code> derives calendar time in terms of seconds passed since the Unix epoch (January 1, 1970). <code class="command">gettimeofday_s()</code> counts the <span class="emphasis"><em>actual</em></span> number of seconds since Unix epoch, which gives a fairly accurate human-readable timestamp for the output. </div><a id="idp1975024" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idp7399168" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idp2134056" class="indexterm"></a><div class="para"> In this script, the <code class="command">$return</code> is a local variable that stores the actual number of bytes each process reads or writes from the virtual file system. <code class="command">$return</code> can only be used in return probes (e.g. <code class="command">vfs.read.return</code> and <code class="command">vfs.read.return</code>). </div><div class="example" id="disktopoutput"><h6>Example 5.6. <a class="xref" href="mainsect-disk.html#scriptdisktop">disktop.stp</a> Sample Output</h6><div class="example-contents"><pre class="screen">[...] Mon Sep 29 03:38:28 2008 , Average: 19Kb/sec, Read: 7Kb, Write: 89Kb UID PID PPID CMD DEVICE T BYTES 0 26319 26294 firefox sda5 W 90229 0 2758 2757 pam_timestamp_c sda5 R 8064 0 2885 1 cupsd sda5 W 1678 Mon Sep 29 03:38:38 2008 , Average: 1Kb/sec, Read: 7Kb, Write: 1Kb UID PID PPID CMD DEVICE T BYTES 0 2758 2757 pam_timestamp_c sda5 R 8064 0 2885 1 cupsd sda5 W 1678</pre></div></div><br class="example-break" /></div></div><ul class="docnav"><li class="previous"><a accesskey="p" href="useful-systemtap-scripts.html"><strong>Prev</strong>Chapter 5. 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