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NAME
msacc - Convenience functions for microstate accounting
DESCRIPTION
This module implements some convenience functions for analyzing microstate accounting
data. For details about how to use the basic api and what the different states represent
see erlang:statistics(microstate_accounting).
Basic Scenario
1> msacc:start(1000).
ok
2> msacc:print().
Average thread real-time : 1000513 us
Accumulated system run-time : 2213 us
Average scheduler run-time : 1076 us
Thread aux check_io emulator gc other port sleep
Stats per thread:
async( 0) 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 100.00%
async( 1) 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 100.00%
aux( 1) 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 99.99%
scheduler( 1) 0.00% 0.03% 0.13% 0.00% 0.01% 0.00% 99.82%
scheduler( 2) 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.03% 0.00% 99.97%
Stats per type:
async 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 100.00%
aux 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 99.99%
scheduler 0.00% 0.02% 0.06% 0.00% 0.02% 0.00% 99.89%
ok
This first command enables microstate accounting for 1000 milliseconds. See start/0,
stop/0, reset/0 and start/1 for more details. The second command prints the statistics
gathered during that time. First three general statistics are printed.
Average real-time:
The average time spent collecting data in the threads. This should be close to the
time which data was collected.
System run-time:
The total run-time of all threads in the system. This is what you get if you call
msacc:stats(total_runtime,Stats).
Average scheduler run-time:
The average run-time for the schedulers. This is the average amount of time the
schedulers did not sleep.
Then one column per state is printed with a the percentage of time this thread spent in
the state out of it's own real-time. After the thread specific time, the accumulated time
for each type of thread is printed in a similar format.
Since we have the average real-time and the percentage spent in each state we can easily
calculate the time spent in each state by multiplying Average thread real-time with Thread
state %, i.e. to get the time Scheduler 1 spent in the emulator state we do 1000513us *
0.13% = 1300us.
DATA TYPES
msacc_data() = [msacc_data_thread()]
msacc_data_thread() =
#{'$type' := msacc_data,
type := msacc_type(),
id := msacc_id(),
counters := msacc_data_counters()}
msacc_data_counters() = #{msacc_state() => integer() >= 0}
A map containing the different microstate accounting states and the number of
microseconds spent in it.
msacc_stats() = [msacc_stats_thread()]
msacc_stats_thread() =
#{'$type' := msacc_stats,
type := msacc_type(),
id := msacc_id(),
system := float(),
counters := msacc_stats_counters()}
A map containing information about a specific thread. The percentages in the map
can be either run-time or real-time depending on if runtime or realtime was
requested from stats/2. system is the percentage of total system time for this
specific thread.
msacc_stats_counters() =
#{msacc_state() => #{thread := float(), system := float()}}
A map containing the different microstate accounting states. Each value in the map
contains another map with the percentage of time that this thread has spent in the
specific state. Both the percentage of system time and the time for that specific
thread is part of the map.
msacc_type() =
aux | async | dirty_cpu_scheduler | dirty_io_scheduler |
poll | scheduler
msacc_id() = integer() >= 0
msacc_state() =
alloc | aux | bif | busy_wait | check_io | emulator | ets |
gc | gc_fullsweep | nif | other | port | send | sleep | timers
The different states that a thread can be in. See
erlang:statistics(microstate_accounting) for details.
msacc_print_options() = #{system => boolean()}
The different options that can be given to print/2.
EXPORTS
available() -> boolean()
This function checks whether microstate accounting is available or not.
start() -> boolean()
Start microstate accounting. Returns whether it was previously enabled or disabled.
start(Time) -> true
Types:
Time = timeout()
Resets all counters and then starts microstate accounting for the given
milliseconds.
stop() -> boolean()
Stop microstate accounting. Returns whether is was previously enabled or disabled.
reset() -> boolean()
Reset microstate accounting counters. Returns whether is was enabled or disabled.
print() -> ok
Prints the current microstate accounting to standard out. Same as
msacc:print(msacc:stats(),#{}).
print(DataOrStats) -> ok
Types:
DataOrStats = msacc_data() | msacc_stats()
Print the given microstate statistics values to stdout. Same as
msacc:print(DataOrStats,#{}).
print(DataOrStats, Options) -> ok
Types:
DataOrStats = msacc_data() | msacc_stats()
Options = msacc_print_options()
Print the given microstate statistics values to standard out. With many states this
can be quite verbose. See the top of this reference manual for a brief description
of what the fields mean.
It is possible to print more specific types of statistics by first manipulating the
DataOrStats using stats/2. For instance if you want to print the percentage of run-
time for each thread you can do:
msacc:print(msacc:stats(runtime,msacc:stats())).
If you want to only print run-time per thread type you can do:
msacc:print(msacc:stats(type,msacc:stats(runtime,msacc:stats()))).
Options
system:
Print percentage of time spent in each state out of system time as well as
thread time. Default: false.
print(FileOrDevice, DataOrStats, Options) -> ok
Types:
FileOrDevice = file:filename() | io:device()
DataOrStats = msacc_data() | msacc_stats()
Options = msacc_print_options()
Print the given microstate statistics values to the given file or device. The other
arguments behave the same way as for print/2.
stats() -> msacc_data()
Returns a runtime system independent version of the microstate statistics data
presented by erlang:statistics(microstate_accounting). All counters have been
normalized to be in microsecond resolution.
stats(Analysis, Stats) -> integer() >= 0
Types:
Analysis = system_realtime | system_runtime
Stats = msacc_data()
Returns the system time for the given microstate statistics values. System time is
the accumulated time of all threads.
realtime:
Returns all time recorded for all threads.
runtime:
Returns all time spent doing work for all threads, i.e. all time not spent in
the sleep state.
stats(Analysis, Stats) -> msacc_stats()
Types:
Analysis = realtime | runtime
Stats = msacc_data()
Returns fractions of real-time or run-time spent in the various threads from the
given microstate statistics values.
stats(Analysis, StatsOrData) -> msacc_data() | msacc_stats()
Types:
Analysis = type
StatsOrData = msacc_data() | msacc_stats()
Returns a list of microstate statistics values where the values for all threads of
the same type has been merged.
to_file(Filename) -> ok | {error, file:posix()}
Types:
Filename = file:name_all()
Dumps the current microstate statistics counters to a file that can be parsed with
file:consult/1.
from_file(Filename) -> msacc_data()
Types:
Filename = file:name_all()
Read a file dump produced by to_file(Filename).