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PT-IOPROFILE(1)       User Contributed Perl Documentation      PT-IOPROFILE(1)

NAME

pt-ioprofile - Watch process IO and print a table of file and I/O activity.

SYNOPSIS

Usage: pt-ioprofile [OPTIONS] [FILE] pt-ioprofile does two things: 1) get lsof+strace for -s seconds, 2) aggregate the result. If you specify a FILE, then step 1) is not performed.

RISKS

WARNING: pt-ioprofile freezes the server and may crash the process, or make it perform badly after detaching, or leave it in a sleeping state! Before using this tool, please: o Read the tool's documentation o Review the tool's known "BUGS" o Test the tool on a non-production server o Backup your production server and verify the backups pt-ioprofile should be considered an intrusive tool, and should not be used on production servers unless you understand and accept the risks.

DESCRIPTION

pt-ioprofile uses "strace" and "lsof" to watch a process's IO and print out a table of files and I/O activity. By default, it watches the mysqld process for 30 seconds. The output is like: Tue Dec 27 15:33:57 PST 2011 Tracing process ID 1833 total read write lseek ftruncate filename 0.000150 0.000029 0.000068 0.000038 0.000015 /tmp/ibBE5opS You probably need to run this tool as root. pt-ioprofile works by attaching "strace" to the process using "ptrace()", which will make it run very slowly until "strace" detaches. In addition to freezing the server, there is some risk of the process crashing or performing badly after "strace" detaches from it, or of "strace" not detaching cleanly and leaving the process in a sleeping state. As a result, this should be considered an intrusive tool, and should not be used on production servers unless you are comfortable with that.

OPTIONS

--aggregate short form: -a; type: string; default: sum The aggregate function, either "sum" or "avg". If sum, then each cell will contain the sum of the values in it. If avg, then each cell will contain the average of the values in it. --cell short form: -c; type: string; default: times The cell contents. Valid values are: VALUE CELLS CONTAIN ===== ======================= count Count of I/O operations sizes Sizes of I/O operations times I/O operation timing --group-by short form: -g; type: string; default: filename The group-by item. Valid values are: VALUE GROUPING ===== ====================================== all Summarize into a single line of output filename One line of output per filename pid One line of output per process ID --help Print help and exit. --profile-pid short form: -p; type: int The PID to profile, overrides "--profile-process". --profile-process short form: -b; type: string; default: mysqld The process name to profile. --run-time type: int; default: 30 How long to profile. --save-samples type: string Filename to save samples in; these can be used for later analysis. --version Print the tool's version and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

This tool does not use any environment variables.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

This tool requires the Bourne shell (/bin/sh).

BUGS

For a list of known bugs, see <http://www.percona.com/bugs/pt-ioprofile>. Please report bugs at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-toolkit>. Include the following information in your bug report: o Complete command-line used to run the tool o Tool "--version" o MySQL version of all servers involved o Output from the tool including STDERR o Input files (log/dump/config files, etc.) If possible, include debugging output by running the tool with "PTDEBUG"; see "ENVIRONMENT".

DOWNLOADING

Visit <http://www.percona.com/software/percona-toolkit/> to download the latest release of Percona Toolkit. Or, get the latest release from the command line: wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.tar.gz wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.rpm wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.deb You can also get individual tools from the latest release: wget percona.com/get/TOOL Replace "TOOL" with the name of any tool.

AUTHORS

Baron Schwartz

ABOUT PERCONA TOOLKIT

This tool is part of Percona Toolkit, a collection of advanced command- line tools for MySQL developed by Percona. Percona Toolkit was forked from two projects in June, 2011: Maatkit and Aspersa. Those projects were created by Baron Schwartz and primarily developed by him and Daniel Nichter. Visit <http://www.percona.com/software/> to learn about other free, open-source software from Percona.

COPYRIGHT, LICENSE, AND WARRANTY

This program is copyright 2011-2015 Percona LLC and/or its affiliates, 2010-2011 Baron Schwartz. THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2; OR the Perl Artistic License. On UNIX and similar systems, you can issue `man perlgpl' or `man perlartistic' to read these licenses. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.

VERSION

pt-ioprofile 2.2.14 perl v5.20.2 2015-04-10 PT-IOPROFILE(1)

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