Ubuntu Manpage: pcp-tapestat - report tape I/O statistics

NAME

       pcp-tapestat - report tape I/O statistics

SYNOPSIS

       pcp   [pcp options]   tapestat   [-u]   [-G   method]  [-P  precision]  [-R  pattern]  [-x
       [t][,h][,noidle]]

DESCRIPTION

       pcp-tapestat reports I/O statistics for tape devices.

OPTIONS

When invoked via the pcp(1) command, the -a/--archive, -h/--host, -O/--origin,
-s/--samples, -t/--interval, -Z/--timezone and several other pcp options become indirectly
available; refer to PCPIntro(1) for a complete description of these options.

The additional command line options available for pcp-tapestat are:

-G method, --aggregate=method
Specifies that statistics for device names matching the regular expression specified
with the -R regex option should be aggregated according to method. Note this is
aggregation based on matching device names (not temporal aggregation). When -G is
used, the device name column is reported as method(regex), e.g. if -G sum -R
'st(0|1)$' is specified, the device column will be sum(st(0|1)$) and summed
statistics for st0 and st1 will be reported in the remaining columns. If -G is
specified but -R is not specified, then the default regex is .*, i.e. matching all
device names. If method is sum then the statistics are summed. If method is avg
then the statistics are summed and then averaged by dividing by the number of
matching device names. If method is min or max, the minimum or maximum statistics
for matching devices are reported, respectively.

-P N, --precision=N
This indicates the precision (number of decimal places) to report. The default
precision N may be set to something other than the default (2). Note that the avgrq-
sz and avgqu-sz fields are always reported with N+1 decimals of precision. These
fields typically have values less than 1.

-R pattern, --regex=pattern
This restricts the report to device names matching a regular expression pattern. The
given pattern is searched as a perl style regular expression, and will match any
portion of a device name. e.g. '^st[0-9]+' will match all device names starting with
'st' followed by one or more numbers. e.g. '^st(0|1)$' will only match 'st0' and
'st1'. e.g. 'st0$' will match 'st0' but not 'st1'. See also the -G option for
aggregation options.

-u, --no-interpolation
When replaying a set of archives, by default values are reported according to the
requested sample interval (-t option), not according to the actual interval recorded
in the archive(s). Without this option PCP interpolates the values to be reported
based on the records in the set of archives, which is particularly useful when the -t
option is used to replay a set of archives with a longer sampling interval than that
with which the archive(s) was originally recorded with. With the -u option,
uninterpolated reporting is enabled - every value is reported according to the native
recording interval in the set of archives. When the -u option is specified, the -t
option makes no sense and is incompatible because the replay interval is always the
same as the recording interval in the set of archive. In addition, -u only makes
sense when replaying archives, see the -a option on PCPIntro(1), and so if -u is
specified then -a must also be specified.

-x comma-separated-options
Specifies a comma-separated list of one or more extended reporting options as
follows:
t - prefix every line in the report with a timestamp in ctime(3) format,
h - omit the heading, which is otherwise reported every 24 samples,
noidle - Do not display statistics for idle devices.

REPORT

The columns in the pcp-tapestat report have the following interpretation:

Timestamp
When the -x t option is specified, this column is the timestamp in ctime(3) format.

Device Specifies the tape device name. When -G is specified, this is replaced by the
aggregation method and regular expression - see the -G and -R options above.

r/s The number of reads issued expressed as the number per second averaged over the
interval.

w/s The number of writes issued expressed as the number per second averaged over the
interval.

kb_r/s The amount of data read expressed in kilobytes per second averaged over the
interval.

kb_w/s The amount of data written expressed in kilobytes per second averaged over the
interval.

r_pct Read percentage wait - the percentage of time over the interval spent waiting for
read requests to complete. The time is measured from when the request is
dispatched to the SCSI mid-layer until it signals that it completed.

w_pct Write percentage wait - the percentage of time over the interval spent waiting for
write requests to complete. The time is measured from when the request is
dispatched to the SCSI mid-layer until it signals that it completed.

o_pct Overall percentage wait - the percentage of time over the interval spent waiting
for any I/O request to complete (read, write, and other).

Rs/s The number of I/Os, expressed as the number per second averaged over the interval,
where a non-zero residual value was encountered.

o_cnt The number of I/Os, expressed as the number per second averaged over the interval,
that were included as "other". Other I/O includes ioctl calls made to the tape
driver and implicit operations performed by the tape driver such as rewind on close
(for tape devices that implement rewind on close). It does not include any I/O
performed using methods outside of the tape driver (e.g. via sg ioctls).

DIAGNOSTICS

       All are generated on standard error and are intended to be self-explanatory.

PCP ENVIRONMENT

       Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the file and directory
       names used by PCP.  On each installation, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values
       for  these  variables.   The  $PCP_CONF  variable  may  be  used to specify an alternative
       configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5).

       For environment variables affecting PCP tools, see pmGetOptions(3).