syncsnoop.bt(8) System Manager's Manual syncsnoop.bt(8)
NAME
syncsnoop.bt - Trace the sync() variety of syscalls. Uses bpf-
trace/eBPF.
SYNOPSIS
syncsnoop.bt
DESCRIPTION
syncsnoop traces calls to sync() syscalls (sync(), fsync(), msync(),
etc), which flushes file system cache and buffers to storage devices.
These calls can cause performance perturbations, and it can be useful
to know if they are happening, when they happen, and how frequently.
This works by tracing the sync() variety of syscalls via tracepoints.
This program is also a basic example of eBPF/bcc.
Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.
REQUIREMENTS
CONFIG_BPF and bpftrace.
EXAMPLES
Trace calls to sync() syscalls:
# syncsnoop.bt
FIELDS
TIME A timestamp on the output, in "HH:MM:SS" format.
PID The process ID that was on-CPU during the event.
COMM The process name that was on-CPU during the event.
EVENT The tracepoint name for the sync event.
OVERHEAD
This traces sync syscalls and prints output for each event. As the rate
of this is generally expected to be low (<< 100/s), the overhead is
also expected to be negligible.
SOURCE
This is from bpftrace.
https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace
Also look in the bpftrace distribution for a companion _examples.txt
file containing example usage, output, and commentary for this tool.
This is a bpftrace version of the bcc tool of the same name.
https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
OS
Linux
STABILITY
Unstable - in development.
AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg
SEE ALSO
iostat(1)
USER COMMANDS 2018-09-06 syncsnoop.bt(8)
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