cachestat(8) System Manager's Manual cachestat(8)
NAME
cachestat - Statistics for linux page cache hit/miss ratios. Uses Linux
eBPF/bcc.
SYNOPSIS
cachestat [-T] [interval [count]]
DESCRIPTION
This traces four kernel functions and prints per-second summaries. This
can be useful for general workload characterization, and looking for
patterns in operation usage over time.
This works by tracing kernel page cache functions using dynamic trac-
ing, and will need updating to match any changes to these functions.
Edit the script to customize which functions are traced.
Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.
REQUIREMENTS
CONFIG_BPF and bcc.
EXAMPLES
Print summaries every second:
# cachestat
Print summaries every second with timestamp:
# cachestat -T
Print output every five seconds, three times:
# cachestat 5 3
Print output with timestamp every five seconds, three times:
# cachestat -T 5 3
FIELDS
TIME Timestamp.
HITS Number of page cache hits.
MISSES Number of page cache misses.
DIRTIES
Number of dirty pages added to the page cache.
HITRATIO
The hit ratio as a percentage.
READ_HIT%
Read hit percent of page cache usage.
WRITE_HIT%
Write hit percent of page cache usage.
BUFFERS_MB
Buffers size taken from /proc/meminfo.
CACHED_MB
Cached amount of data in current page cache taken from
/proc/meminfo.
OVERHEAD
This traces various kernel page cache functions and maintains in-kernel
counts, which are asynchronously copied to user-space. While the rate
of operations can be very high (>1G/sec) we can have up to 34% over-
head, this is still a relatively efficient way to trace these events,
and so the overhead is expected to be small for normal workloads. Mea-
sure in a test environment.
SOURCE
This is from bcc.
https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
Also look in the bcc distribution for a companion _examples.txt file
containing example usage, output, and commentary for this tool.
OS
Linux
STABILITY
Unstable - in development.
AUTHOR
Allan McAleavy
SEE ALSO
https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools/blob/master/fs/cachestat
USER COMMANDS 2016-01-30 cachestat(8)
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