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authorAlan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>2009-10-08 14:12:12 -0400
committerAlan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>2009-10-08 14:12:12 -0400
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btt: Added in I/O activity per device and system-wide
It now keeps track of I/O activity on a per-device basis (as well as a cumulative system-wide view). ``I/O activity'' is defined as defined as the time during which the device driver and device are activelty working on at least one I/O. Here's a sample output: ==================== I/O Active Period Information ==================== DEV | # Live Avg. Act Avg. !Act % Live ---------- | ---------- ------------- ------------- ------ (254, 0) | 0 0.000000000 0.000000000 0.00 ( 8, 17) | 0 0.000000000 0.000000000 0.00 ( 8, 16) | 29 0.909596815 0.094646263 90.87 ( 8, 33) | 0 0.000000000 0.000000000 0.00 ( 8, 32) | 168 0.097848226 0.068231948 59.06 ---------- | ---------- ------------- ------------- ------ Total Sys | 33 0.799808811 0.082334758 90.92 Also added a new btt -Z option that generates per-device and system-wide I/O activity data that can be plotted. Refer to the documentation updates (btt.1, btt.tex) for more information.
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@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ btt \- analyse block i/o traces produces by blktrace
[ \-V | \-\-version ]
.br
[ \-z <\fIoutput name\fR> | \-\-q2d\-latencies=<\fIoutput name\fR> ]
+.br
+[ \-Z | \-\-do\-active ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -339,6 +341,14 @@ respectively. The supplied argument provides the basis for the output
name for each device.
.RE
+.B \-Z
+.br
+.B \-\-do\-active
+.RS 4
+The \-Z will output files containing data which can be plotted showing
+per\-device (and total system) I/O activity.
+.RE
+
.SH AUTHORS
\fIbtt\fR was written by Alan D. Brunelle. This man page was created