btrace(8) — Linux manual page

BTRACE(8)                                                      BTRACE(8)

NAME

       btrace - perform live tracing for block devices

SYNOPSIS

       btrace [-s] [-t] [-w N] [-n N] [-b N] [-r <dbg mnt>] [-a
       <trace>...] <dev>...

DESCRIPTION

       The btrace script provides a quick and easy way to do live
       tracing of block devices.  It calls blktrace on the specified
       devices and pipes the output through blkparse for formatting.
       See blktrace (8) for more in-depth information about how blktrace
       works.

OPTIONS

       -s Displays data sorted by program (see blkparse (1)).

       -t Displays time deltas per IO (see blkparse (1)).

       -w N Sets run time to the number of seconds specified (see
           blktrace (8)).

       -n N Specifies the number of buffers to use (see blktrace (8)).

       -b N Specifies buffer size for event extraction (scaled by 1024)
           (see blktrace (8)).

       -r <dbg mnt> Specifies the debugfs mountpoint.

       -a <trace>...  Adds mask to current filter (see blktrace (8)).

       <dev> Specifies the device to trace.

EXAMPLE

       Simply running

           % btrace /dev/sda

       will show a trace of the device /dev/sda.

AUTHORS

       blkparse was written by Jens Axboe, Alan D. Brunelle and Nathan
       Scott.  This man page was created from the blktrace documentation
       by Bas Zoetekouw.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <linux-btrace@vger.kernel.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2006 Jens Axboe, Alan D. Brunelle and Nathan Scott.
       This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under
       the terms of the GNU General Public License
       <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.  There is NO WARRANTY, to
       the extent permitted by law.
       This manual page was created for Debian by Bas Zoetekouw.  It was
       derived from the documentation provided by the authors and it may
       be used, distributed and modified under the terms of the GNU
       General Public License, version 2.
       On Debian systems, the text of the GNU General Public License can
       be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

SEE ALSO

       blktrace(8), blkparse(1), verify_blkparse(1), blkrawverify(1),
       btt(1)

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blktrace git-20070306202522  March  6, 2007                    BTRACE(8)

Pages that refer to this page: blkparse(1), blkrawverify(1), verify_blkparse(1), blkiomon(8), blktrace(8)

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