iofileb.d(1m) USER COMMANDS iofileb.d(1m)NAME
iofileb.d - I/O bytes by file and process. Uses DTrace.
SYNOPSIS
iofileb.d
DESCRIPTION
This prints a summary of requested disk activity by pathname, providing totals of the I/O events in bytes. It is a companion to the
iofile.d script - which prints in terms of I/O wait time, not bytes. I/O wait time is a better metric for understanding performance
issues. Both disk and NFS I/O are measured.
Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges can run this command.
EXAMPLES
Sample until Ctrl-C is hit then print report,
# iofileb.d
FIELDS
PID process ID
CMD process name
KB kilobytes of disk I/O
FILE file pathname
DOCUMENTATION
See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may include full worked examples with ver-
bose descriptions explaining the output.
EXIT
iofileb.d will sample until Ctrl-C is hit.
SEE ALSO iofile.d(1M), iosnoop(1M), dtrace(1M)version 1.00 Feb 20, 2006 iofileb.d(1m)
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bitesize.d(1m) USER COMMANDS bitesize.d(1m)NAME
bitesize.d - analyse disk I/O size by process. Uses DTrace.
SYNOPSIS
bitesize.d
DESCRIPTION
This produces a report for the size of disk events caused by processes. These are the disk events sent by the block I/O driver.
If applications must use the disks, we generally prefer they do so sequentially with large I/O sizes, or larger "bites".
Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges can run this command.
EXAMPLES
Sample until Ctrl-C is hit then print report,
# bitesize.d
FIELDS
PID process ID
CMD command and argument list
value size in bytes
count number of I/O operations
NOTES
The application may be requesting smaller sized operations, which are being rounded up to the nearest sector size or UFS block size.
To analyse what the application is requesting, DTraceToolkit programs such as Proc/fddist may help.
DOCUMENTATION
See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may include full worked examples with ver-
bose descriptions explaining the output.
EXIT
bitesize.d will sample until Ctrl-C is hit.
AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia]
SEE ALSO iosnoop(1M), seeksize(1M), dtrace(1M)version 1.00 Jun 15, 2005 bitesize.d(1m)
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