From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761638AbYDNPtx (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:49:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754406AbYDNPto (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:49:44 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:46629 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753892AbYDNPtn (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:49:43 -0400 From: Chris Mason To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [ANNOUNCE] seekwatcher v0.11 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:49:34 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804141149.34556.chris.mason@oracle.com> X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello everyone, seekwatcher uses blktrace data to create IO graphs and movies. I mainly use it to compare and tune filesystems under different workloads. The main update in v0.11 is the ability to run blktrace for multiple block devices. I'm using this for the btrfs multi-device code, but it can also help figure out what lvm/md are doing to the underling block devices. Example: seekwatcher -t dd.trace -d /dev/sda1 -d /dev/sdb1 -o dd.png \ -p 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/file bs=1M count=4000' Leads to something like this (the png below was 4 devices): http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/seekwatcher/btrfs-raid0.png It does a simple concatenation of the block numbers it finds in the blktrace output, and sorts the traces from all the devices by time. Other examples and download information are available here: http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/seekwatcher/ -chris