fsslower-nd.8

.TH fsslower-nd 8  "2015-01-30" "USER COMMANDS"
.SH NAME
fsslower-nd \- Trace slow file system sync reads and writes. Uses Linux SystemTap (non-debuginfo).
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B fsslower-nd.stp
[min_ms]
.SH DESCRIPTION
fsslower-nd.stp dynamically traces two common file system functions:
do_sync_read() and do_sync_write(), and shows details of each call that is
slower than a threshold. Many, but not all, file systems and
workloads use these functions. Tracing their time provides one view of
suffered file system latency.

Other file system requests not covered by these functions and this tool include:
asynchronous I/O, directory operations, and file handle operations.
.SH REQUIREMENTS
SystemTap.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
min_ms
Minimum millisecond threshold.
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
Measure (most) file system synchronous read and write requests with latency slower than or equal to 5 ms:
#
.B fsslower-nd.stp 5
.SH FIELDS
.TP
TIME
Time of the event completion.
.TP
PID
Process ID.
.TP
COMM
Process name.
.TP
FUNC
Kernel function traced.
.TP
SIZE
Size of FS request, in bytes.
.TP
LAT(ms)
Latency of function, in milliseconds.
.SH OVERHEAD
The overheads are measurable, as file system requests can be very frequent, and
the small overhead of tracing each (eg, 4 microseconds per call) can begin to
add up. Best case, it won't be noticeable. Worst case, the application may run
2x slower.
.SH SOURCE
This is from the SystemTap lwtools collection.
.IP
https://github.com/brendangregg/systemtap-lwtools
.PP
Also look under the examples directory for a text file containing example
usage, output, and commentary for this tool.
.SH OS
Linux
.SH STABILITY
Unstable - in development.
.SH AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg
.SH SEE ALSO
iostat(1), fslatency-nd.stp(8), biolatency-nd.stp(8)