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NAME
pt-summary - Summarize system information nicely.
SYNOPSIS
Usage: pt-summary
pt-summary conveniently summarizes the status and configuration of a server. It is not a tuning tool or
diagnosis tool. It produces a report that is easy to diff and can be pasted into emails without losing
the formatting. This tool works well on many types of Unix systems.
Download and run:
wget http://percona.com/get/pt-summary
bash ./pt-summary
RISKS
Percona Toolkit is mature, proven in the real world, and well tested, but all database tools can pose a
risk to the system and the database server. Before using this tool, please:
• Read the tool's documentation
• Review the tool's known "BUGS"
• Test the tool on a non-production server
• Backup your production server and verify the backups
DESCRIPTION
pt-summary runs a large variety of commands to inspect system status and configuration, saves the output
into files in a temporary directory, and then runs Unix commands on these results to format them nicely.
It works best when executed as a privileged user, but will also work without privileges, although some
output might not be possible to generate without root.
OUTPUT
Many of the outputs from this tool are deliberately rounded to show their magnitude but not the exact
detail. This is called fuzzy-rounding. The idea is that it doesn't matter whether a particular counter is
918 or 921; such a small variation is insignificant, and only makes the output hard to compare to other
servers. Fuzzy-rounding rounds in larger increments as the input grows. It begins by rounding to the
nearest 5, then the nearest 10, nearest 25, and then repeats by a factor of 10 larger (50, 100, 250), and
so on, as the input grows.
The following is a simple report generated from a CentOS virtual machine, broken into sections with
commentary following each section. Some long lines are reformatted for clarity when reading this
documentation as a manual page in a terminal.
# Percona Toolkit System Summary Report ######################
Date | 2012-03-30 00:58:07 UTC (local TZ: EDT -0400)
Hostname | localhost.localdomain
Uptime | 20:58:06 up 1 day, 20 min, 1 user,
load average: 0.14, 0.18, 0.18
System | innotek GmbH; VirtualBox; v1.2 ()
Service Tag | 0
Platform | Linux
Release | CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
Kernel | 2.6.18-194.el5
Architecture | CPU = 32-bit, OS = 32-bit
Threading | NPTL 2.5
Compiler | GNU CC version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48).
SELinux | Enforcing
Virtualized | VirtualBox
This section shows the current date and time, and a synopsis of the server and operating system.
# Processor ##################################################
Processors | physical = 1, cores = 0, virtual = 1, hyperthreading = no
Speeds | 1x2510.626
Models | 1xIntel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400S CPU @ 2.50GHz
Caches | 1x6144 KB
This section is derived from /proc/cpuinfo.
# Memory #####################################################
Total | 503.2M
Free | 29.0M
Used | physical = 474.2M, swap allocated = 1.0M,
swap used = 16.0k, virtual = 474.3M
Buffers | 33.9M
Caches | 262.6M
Dirty | 396 kB
UsedRSS | 201.9M
Swappiness | 60
DirtyPolicy | 40, 10
Locator Size Speed Form Factor Type Type Detail
======= ==== ===== =========== ==== ===========
Information about memory is gathered from "free". The Used statistic is the total of the rss sizes
displayed by "ps". The Dirty statistic for the cached value comes from /proc/meminfo. On Linux, the
swappiness settings are gathered from "sysctl". The final portion of this section is a table of the
DIMMs, which comes from "dmidecode". In this example there is no output.
# Mounted Filesystems ########################################
Filesystem Size Used Type Opts Mountpoint
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 15G 17% ext3 rw /
/dev/sda1 99M 13% ext3 rw /boot
tmpfs 252M 0% tmpfs rw /dev/shm
The mounted filesystem section is a combination of information from "mount" and "df". This section is
skipped if you disable "--summarize-mounts".
# Disk Schedulers And Queue Size #############################
dm-0 | UNREADABLE
dm-1 | UNREADABLE
hdc | [cfq] 128
md0 | UNREADABLE
sda | [cfq] 128
The disk scheduler information is extracted from the /sys filesystem in Linux.
# Disk Partitioning ############################################
Device Type Start End Size
============ ==== ========== ========== ==================
/dev/sda Disk 17179869184
/dev/sda1 Part 1 13 98703360
/dev/sda2 Part 14 2088 17059230720
Information about disk partitioning comes from "fdisk -l".
# Kernel Inode State #########################################
dentry-state | 10697 8559 45 0 0 0
file-nr | 960 0 50539
inode-nr | 14059 8139
These lines are from the files of the same name in the /proc/sys/fs directory on Linux. Read the "proc"
man page to learn about the meaning of these files on your system.
# LVM Volumes ################################################
LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert
LogVol00 VolGroup00 -wi-ao 269.00G
LogVol01 VolGroup00 -wi-ao 9.75G
This section shows the output of "lvs".
# RAID Controller ############################################
Controller | No RAID controller detected
The tool can detect a variety of RAID controllers by examining "lspci" and "dmesg" information. If the
controller software is installed on the system, in many cases it is able to execute status commands and
show a summary of the RAID controller's status and configuration. If your system is not supported, please
file a bug report.
# Network Config #############################################
Controller | Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
FIN Timeout | 60
Port Range | 61000
The network controllers attached to the system are detected from "lspci". The TCP/IP protocol
configuration parameters are extracted from "sysctl". You can skip this section by disabling the
"--summarize-network" option.
# Interface Statistics #######################################
interface rx_bytes rx_packets rx_errors tx_bytes tx_packets tx_errors
========= ======== ========== ========= ======== ========== =========
lo 60000000 12500 0 60000000 12500 0
eth0 15000000 80000 0 1500000 10000 0
sit0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Interface statistics are gathered from "ip -s link" and are fuzzy-rounded. The columns are received and
transmitted bytes, packets, and errors. You can skip this section by disabling the "--summarize-network"
option.
# Network Connections ########################################
Connections from remote IP addresses
127.0.0.1 2
Connections to local IP addresses
127.0.0.1 2
Connections to top 10 local ports
38346 1
60875 1
States of connections
ESTABLISHED 5
LISTEN 8
This section shows a summary of network connections, retrieved from "netstat" and "fuzzy-rounded" to make
them easier to compare when the numbers grow large. There are two sub-sections showing how many
connections there are per origin and destination IP address, and a sub-section showing the count of ports
in use. The section ends with the count of the network connections' states. You can skip this section
by disabling the "--summarize-network" option.
# Top Processes ##############################################
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 15 0 2072 628 540 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.55 init
2 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.97 events/0
6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
7 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
10 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 kblockd/0
11 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
# Notable Processes ##########################################
PID OOM COMMAND
2028 +0 sshd
This section shows the first few lines of "top" so that you can see what processes are actively using CPU
time. The notable processes include the SSH daemon and any process whose out-of-memory-killer priority
is set to 17. You can skip this section by disabling the "--summarize-processes" option.
# Simplified and fuzzy rounded vmstat (wait please) ##########
procs ---swap-- -----io---- ---system---- --------cpu--------
r b si so bi bo ir cs us sy il wa st
2 0 0 0 3 15 30 125 0 0 99 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1250 800 6 10 84 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1000 125 0 0 100 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1000 125 0 0 100 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 450 1000 125 0 1 88 11 0
# The End ####################################################
This section is a trimmed-down sample of "vmstat 1 5", so you can see the general status of the system at
present. The values in the table are fuzzy-rounded, except for the CPU columns. You can skip this
section by disabling the "--summarize-processes" option.
OPTIONS
--config
type: string
Read this comma-separated list of config files. If specified, this must be the first option on the
command line.
--help
Print help and exit.
--read-samples
type: string
Create a report from the files in this directory.
--save-samples
type: string
Save the collected data in this directory.
--sleep
type: int; default: 5
How long to sleep when gathering samples from vmstat.
--summarize-mounts
default: yes; negatable: yes
Report on mounted filesystems and disk usage.
--summarize-network
default: yes; negatable: yes
Report on network controllers and configuration.
--summarize-processes
default: yes; negatable: yes
Report on top processes and "vmstat" output.
--version
Print tool's version and exit.
ENVIRONMENT
This tool does not use any environment variables.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
This tool requires the Bourne shell (/bin/sh).
BUGS
For a list of known bugs, see <http://www.percona.com/bugs/pt-summary>.
Please report bugs at <https://jira.percona.com/projects/PT>. Include the following information in your
bug report:
• Complete command-line used to run the tool
• Tool "--version"
• MySQL version of all servers involved
• Output from the tool including STDERR
• Input files (log/dump/config files, etc.)
If possible, include debugging output by running the tool with "PTDEBUG"; see "ENVIRONMENT".
DOWNLOADING
Visit <http://www.percona.com/software/percona-toolkit/> to download the latest release of Percona
Toolkit. Or, get the latest release from the command line:
wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.tar.gz
wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.rpm
wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.deb
You can also get individual tools from the latest release:
wget percona.com/get/TOOL
Replace "TOOL" with the name of any tool.
AUTHORS
Baron Schwartz, Kevin van Zonneveld, and Brian Fraser
ABOUT PERCONA TOOLKIT
This tool is part of Percona Toolkit, a collection of advanced command-line tools for MySQL developed by
Percona. Percona Toolkit was forked from two projects in June, 2011: Maatkit and Aspersa. Those
projects were created by Baron Schwartz and primarily developed by him and Daniel Nichter. Visit
<http://www.percona.com/software/> to learn about other free, open-source software from Percona.
COPYRIGHT, LICENSE, AND WARRANTY
This program is copyright 2011-2018 Percona LLC and/or its affiliates, 2010-2011 Baron Schwartz.
THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2; OR the Perl Artistic
License. On UNIX and similar systems, you can issue `man perlgpl' or `man perlartistic' to read these
licenses.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write
to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
VERSION
pt-summary 3.1.0