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authorAndrew Price <anprice@redhat.com>2014-09-25 20:49:47 +0100
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iowatcher: Remove iowatcher/README
This README is getting out-of-date and its contents are duplicated in the iowatcher manpage which is up-to-date, so remove it to reduce duplication of effort. Signed-off-by: Andrew Price <anprice@redhat.com>
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-iowatcher graphs the results of a blktrace run. It has a few different modes:
-
- * Graph the result of an existing blktrace
-
- * Start a new blktrace
-
- * Start a new blktrace and a benchmark run
-
- * Make a movie of the IO from a given trace (only mp4 for now)
-
-Output:
-
- iowatcher can produce either svg files or mp4 movies. Most browsers
- can view the svg files, or you can use rsvg-view-3 from librsvg.
- rsvg-convert can turn the svgs into many other formats.
-
-Building:
-
- Type make and make install. We need ffmpeg or png2theora, and
- librsvg to make movies, otherwise there are no dependencies.
-
-The basic options:
-
- -d controls which device you are tracing. You can only trace one device
- at a time for now. It is sent directly to blktrace, and only
- needed when you are making a new trace.
-
- -t controls the name of the blktrace file. iowatcher uses a dump from
- blkparse, so -t tries to guess the name of the corresponding
- per CPU blktrace data files if the dump file doesn't already exist.
-
- If you want more than one trace in a given graph, you can specify
- -t more than once.
-
- -F Add a fio bandwidth log graph. You need to run fio --bandwidth-log
- to get one of these, and then pass either the read log or the write
- log into iowatcher.
-
- -l Sets a label in the graph for a trace file. The labels are added in
- the same order the trace files are added.
-
- -m Create a movie. The file format depends on the extension used in the
- -o filename.* option. If you specify an .ogv or .ogg extension, the
- result will be Ogg Theora video, if png2theora is available.
- If you use an .mp4 extension, the result will be an mp4 video if
- ffmpeg is avilable. You can use any other extension, but the end
- result will be an mp4.
-
- You can use --movie=spindle or --movie=rect, which changes the
- style of the IO mapping.
-
- -T Set a title for the graph. This goes at the top of the image.
-
- -o output filename. The default is trace.svg. iowatcher is
- only able to create svg for now.
-
- -r control the duration in seconds for the rolling average.
- iowatcher tries to smooth out bumpy graphs by averaging the
- current second with seconds from the past. Longer numbers here
- give you flatter graphs.
-
- -P add per-process tags to the IO. Each process responsible for
- submitting the IO gets a different color.
-
- -O add a single graph to the output. By default all the graphs
- are included, but with -O you get only the graphs you ask for.
- -O may be used more than once.
-
- -N remove a single graph from the output. This may also be used more
- than once.
-
- Choices for -O and -N are:
- io, fio, tput, latency, queue_depth, iops, cpu-sys, cpu-io,
- cpu-irq, cpu-user, cpu-soft
-
-Examples:
-
- # generate graph from the existing trace.dump
- iowatcher -t trace.dump -o trace.svg
-
- # skip the IO graph
- iowatcher -t trace.dump -o trace.svg -N io
-
- # only graph tput and latency
- iowatcher -t trace.dump -o trace.svg -O tput -O latency
-
- # generate a graph from two runs, and label them
- iowatcher -t ext4.dump -t xfs.dump -l Ext4 -l XFS -o trace.svg
-
- # Run a fio benchmark and store the trace in trace.dump
- # add a title to the top. Use /dev/sda for blktrace
- iowatcher -d /dev/sda -t trace.dump -T 'Fio Benchmark' -p 'fio some_job_file'
-
- # Make a movie from an existing trace
- iowatcher -t trace --movie -o trace.mp4
-
-Please email chris.mason@fusionio.com with any questions