NAME

       eventstat - a tool to measure system events.

SYNOPSIS

       eventstat [options] [delay [count]]

DESCRIPTION

       eventstat is a program that dumps the current active system events.

OPTIONS

       eventstat options are as follow:

       -h     show help

       -n event_count
              only display the first event_count number of top events.

       -q     run quietly, only really makes sense with -r option.

       -r csv_file
              output  gathered  data  in a comma separated values file. This can be then imported
              and graphed using your favourite open source spread sheet.

       -s     report short process name from /proc/pid/cmdline in CSV output. This  reports  just
              the process name.

       -l     report  long  process  name  from /proc/pid/cmdline in CSV output. This reports the
              process name and all the command line arguments.

       -b     just report events, PID and process name. By default the short task name  from  the
              kernel comm field will be displayed, however the -s and -l options will report more
              process name information.

       -k     report just kernel threads.

       -u     report just user space processes.

       -C     report the sample event count in the CSV output rather than the default events  per
              second rate.

       -S     report  the  minimum, maximum, average and population standard deviation at the end
              of the CSV output.

       -d     strip full directory path off the process name in the CSV output.

       -t threshold
              ignore samples where the event delta per second less than the given threshold.

       -c     report cumulative events rather than events per sample period.

EXAMPLES

       Dump events every second until stopped.
               sudo eventstat

       Dump the top 20 events every 60 seconds until stopped.
               sudo eventstat -n 20 60

       Dump events every 10 seconds just 5 times.
               sudo eventstat 10 5

       Quietly dump events every 10 seconds just 5 times into a CSV file with short process name.
               sudo eventstat 10 5 -q -s -r results.csv

CSV OUTPUT

       The -r option  generates  a  comma  separated  file  report  that  can  be  imported  into
       spreadsheets or parsed using text processing tools.  Column 1 of the data is the label for
       each row, columns 2 onwards contain the data for each task that generated a wakeup event.

       The first row lists the task name of the thread or process. Task names in [ ] brackets are
       kernel threads, other tasks are the names of user space processes.  By default these names
       are derived from the task names from /proc/timer_stats but the -s -l  options  fetch  more
       complete task names from /proc/pid/cmdline instead.

       The  second  and  third  rows  list  the names of the internal Linux kernel timer init and
       callback functions, respectively.

       The fourth row lists the total number of wakeup events for each task during the entire run
       of eventstat.

       The  subsequent  rows  list  the  average number of wakeups per second measured during the
       sample interval for each task in column two onwards. The first column indicates the sample
       time (in seconds) since the start of the measuring.

SEE ALSO

       powertop(8)

AUTHOR

       eventstat was written by Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>

       This  manual  page  was  written  by Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>, for the Ubuntu
       project (but may be used by others).

                                         January 2, 2014                             EVENTSTAT(8)