NAME

       bitesize - Summarize block device I/O size as a histogram - Linux eBPF/bcc.

SYNOPSIS

       bitesize

DESCRIPTION

       Show I/O distribution for requested block sizes, by process name.

       This  works  by  tracing  block  I/O  kernel  functions using dynamic tracing and prints a
       historgram of I/O size.

       Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.

REQUIREMENTS

       CONFIG_BPF and bcc.

EXAMPLES

       Count I/O size per process until Ctrl-C is hit:
              # bitesize

FIELDS

       Kbtes  Size in kilobytes of range

       count  How many I/O fell into this range

       distribution
              An ASCII bar chart to visualize the distribution (count column)

OVERHEAD

       This traces kernel block I/O functions to update a  histgroam,  which  are  asynchronously
       copied to user-space. This method is very efficient, and the overhead for most storage I/O
       rates (< 10k IOPS) should be negligible.  If you have a higher IOPS  storage  environment,
       test and quantify the overhead before use.

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/systemtap-lwtools/blob/master/disk/bitesize-nd.stp