| Brendan Gregg | 6497a84 | 2016-02-06 17:08:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Examples of bitesize.py, the Linux bcc/eBPF version. |
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| mcaleavya | 6959dcf | 2016-02-06 12:00:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | |
| 4 | The aim of this tool is to show I/O distribution for requested block sizes, by process name. |
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| 6 | # ./bitesize.py |
| 7 | Tracing... Hit Ctrl-C to end. |
| 8 | ^C |
| 9 | |
| Brendan Gregg | 6497a84 | 2016-02-06 17:08:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | Process Name = 'kworker/u128:1' |
| mcaleavya | 6959dcf | 2016-02-06 12:00:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | Kbytes : count distribution |
| 12 | 0 -> 1 : 1 |******************** | |
| 13 | 2 -> 3 : 0 | | |
| 14 | 4 -> 7 : 2 |****************************************| |
| 15 | |
| Brendan Gregg | 6497a84 | 2016-02-06 17:08:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | Process Name = 'bitesize.py' |
| mcaleavya | 6959dcf | 2016-02-06 12:00:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | Kbytes : count distribution |
| 18 | 0 -> 1 : 0 | | |
| 19 | 2 -> 3 : 0 | | |
| 20 | 4 -> 7 : 0 | | |
| 21 | 8 -> 15 : 0 | | |
| 22 | 16 -> 31 : 0 | | |
| 23 | 32 -> 63 : 0 | | |
| 24 | 64 -> 127 : 0 | | |
| 25 | 128 -> 255 : 1 |****************************************| |
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| Brendan Gregg | 6497a84 | 2016-02-06 17:08:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | Process Name = 'dd' |
| mcaleavya | 6959dcf | 2016-02-06 12:00:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | Kbytes : count distribution |
| 29 | 0 -> 1 : 3 | | |
| 30 | 2 -> 3 : 0 | | |
| 31 | 4 -> 7 : 6 | | |
| 32 | 8 -> 15 : 0 | | |
| 33 | 16 -> 31 : 1 | | |
| 34 | 32 -> 63 : 1 | | |
| 35 | 64 -> 127 : 0 | | |
| 36 | 128 -> 255 : 0 | | |
| 37 | 256 -> 511 : 1 | | |
| 38 | 512 -> 1023 : 0 | | |
| 39 | 1024 -> 2047 : 488 |****************************************| |
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| Brendan Gregg | 6497a84 | 2016-02-06 17:08:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | Process Name = 'jbd2/dm-1-8' |
| mcaleavya | 6959dcf | 2016-02-06 12:00:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | Kbytes : count distribution |
| 43 | 0 -> 1 : 0 | | |
| 44 | 2 -> 3 : 0 | | |
| 45 | 4 -> 7 : 1 |****************************************| |
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| Brendan Gregg | 6497a84 | 2016-02-06 17:08:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | Process Name = 'cat' |
| mcaleavya | 6959dcf | 2016-02-06 12:00:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | Kbytes : count distribution |
| 49 | 0 -> 1 : 1 | | |
| 50 | 2 -> 3 : 0 | | |
| 51 | 4 -> 7 : 0 | | |
| 52 | 8 -> 15 : 0 | | |
| 53 | 16 -> 31 : 0 | | |
| 54 | 32 -> 63 : 1 | | |
| 55 | 64 -> 127 : 0 | | |
| 56 | 128 -> 255 : 0 | | |
| 57 | 256 -> 511 : 1924 |****************************************| |
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| Brendan Gregg | 6497a84 | 2016-02-06 17:08:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 59 | Process Name = 'ntpd' |
| mcaleavya | 6959dcf | 2016-02-06 12:00:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | Kbytes : count distribution |
| 61 | 0 -> 1 : 0 | | |
| 62 | 2 -> 3 : 0 | | |
| 63 | 4 -> 7 : 104 |****************************************| |
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| Brendan Gregg | 6497a84 | 2016-02-06 17:08:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | Process Name = 'vmtoolsd' |
| mcaleavya | 6959dcf | 2016-02-06 12:00:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 66 | Kbytes : count distribution |
| 67 | 0 -> 1 : 0 | | |
| 68 | 2 -> 3 : 0 | | |
| 69 | 4 -> 7 : 1 |****************************************| |
| 70 | |
| Brendan Gregg | 6497a84 | 2016-02-06 17:08:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | Process Name = 'bash' |
| mcaleavya | 6959dcf | 2016-02-06 12:00:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | Kbytes : count distribution |
| 73 | 0 -> 1 : 0 | | |
| 74 | 2 -> 3 : 0 | | |
| 75 | 4 -> 7 : 0 | | |
| 76 | 8 -> 15 : 0 | | |
| 77 | 16 -> 31 : 2 |****************************************| |
| 78 | |
| Brendan Gregg | 6497a84 | 2016-02-06 17:08:38 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | Process Name = 'jbd2/sdb-8' |
| mcaleavya | 6959dcf | 2016-02-06 12:00:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | Kbytes : count distribution |
| 81 | 0 -> 1 : 0 | | |
| 82 | 2 -> 3 : 0 | | |
| 83 | 4 -> 7 : 1 |****************************************| |
| 84 | 8 -> 15 : 0 | | |
| 85 | 16 -> 31 : 0 | | |
| 86 | 32 -> 63 : 1 |****************************************| |
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| 88 | We can see from above that there was a dd command being run which generated 488 IOPS between 1MB and 2MB, we can also see the |
| 89 | cat command generating 1924 IOPS between 256Kb and 512Kb. |