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NAME
lttngtop — LTTng Trace Viewer
SYNOPSIS
lttngtop INPUT
DESCRIPTION
Lttngtop is a ncurses interface for reading and browsing traces recorded by the LTTng tracer and
displaying various statistics. As of now, the cpu usage, performance counters and per process/file I/O
bandwidth are displayed. This version currently only supports offline traces, but a live version is in
alpha and will be available for testing soon.
OPTIONS
INPUT Input trace path
TRACE REQUIREMENTS
LTTngTop requires that the pid, procname, tid and ppid context information are enabled during tracing.
The command --create-local-session does all the required setup for a local trace (that must be stopped
and destroyed manually by the user). And the command --create-live-session does all the required setup
for a live trace on localhost (it must also be stopped and destroyed manually by the user).
If you want the CPU activity view, you need the sched_switch event, if you want the I/O statistics, you
need to enable the system call tracing, and if you want the performance counters, you need to enable them
for the events you are interested in (or all of them). Note, there is a hardware limitation for the
number of performance counter you can enable, check dmesg for information.
The following example creates a trace with all events enabled, the mandatory context informations and
three performance counters. It assumes that you are running as root or with a user part of the tracing
group and a lttng-sessiond launched as root.
lttng create lttngtop
lttng enable-event -k lttng_statedump_start,lttng_statedump_end,lttng_statedump_process_state,lttng_statedump_file_descriptor,lttng_statedump_vm_map,lttng_statedump_network_interface,lttng_statedump_interrupt,sched_process_free,sched_switchsched_process_fork -s lttngtop
lttng enable-event -k --syscall -a -s lttngtop
lttng add-context -k -t pid -t procname -t tid -t ppid -t perf:cache-misses -t perf:major-faults -t perf:branch-load-misses -s lttngtop
lttng start lttngtop
sleep 10
lttng stop lttngtop
lttng destroy lttngtop
LIVE STREAMING
In addition to offline traces, LTTngTop can read traces while they are being recorded. The official
supported way of doing live streaming is using lttng-tools >=2.4 and following the documentation in live-
reading-howto.txt of lttng-tools and README-LIVE of lttngtop. An other experimental way of doing live
tracing is with mmap, but this requires some more work because is not officially supported and requires
out-of-tree patches to lttng-tools and babeltrace.
To use the network live-reading, the user only needs to specify the relayd hostname or IP address with
the option -r. For now, LTTngTop will only connect to the first live session established on the relay,
but in a near future, the user will be able to choose which session to attach to.
The default mode after attaching to a session is to start reading the trace from this point in time. In
order to read the trace from the beginning, the user can specify the -b option.
KEY BINDINGS
´F2´: CPUTop
Switch to the CPUTop view which displays the CPU usage of each process
´F3´: PerfTop
Switch to the PerfTop view which displays the performance counters (PMU) value of each process (if
enabled during tracing)
´F4´: IOTop
Switch to the IOTop view which displays the I/O usage of each process (as of now read and writes
on any file descriptor network or disk)
´Enter´: Process details
Display all relevant information for the process selected
´Space´: Highlight
Highlights the process under the blue line to make it easy to find it across all views or toggle
view in preference panel
´q´: Quit
Exit the program
´t´: Threads
Toggle threads display in CPUTop
´r´: Preferences
Display the preference menu for the current view, this menu helps select the column displayed
(only in PerfTop view for now) and the column to sort, use 's' to sort and 'space' to toggle the
view
´s´: Sort
In preference view, sort on the currently selected line
´p´: Pause/Resume
Pause the display, hit again to resume the refresh (only works when the trace has not been fully
displayed)
´Right arrow´: Move forward in time
Display the next second of data, can be hit several time to bypass the default 1 second refresh
period to fast forward
´Left arrow´: Move backward in time
Display the previous second of data, automatically switch to pause if not already enabled
´Up arrow´ / ´k´: Move UP the cursor
Move up the blue line to select processes
´Down arrow´ / ´j´: Move DOWN the cursor
Move down the blue line to select processes
´>': Sort the next column
Update the sorting to the next column
´<': Sort the previous column
Update the sorting to the previous column
SEE ALSO
babeltrace(1), babeltrace-log(1), lttng(1), lttng-ust(3), lttng-sessiond(8)
BUGS
The I/O history has some problems with the file names, and we are missing some system calls parsing to
have the complete I/O accounting.
If you encounter any issues or usability problem, please report it on our mailing list <lttng-
dev@lists.lttng.org> to help improve this project.
CREDITS
LTTngTop is distributed under the GPLv2 license. See the LICENSE file in the source tree for details.
A Web site is available at http://www.efficios.com/babeltrace for more information on Babeltrace and the
Common Trace Format. See http://lttng.org for more information on the LTTng project.
Mailing list for support and development: <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org>.
You can find us on IRC server irc.oftc.net (OFTC) in #lttng.
AUTHORS
LTTngTop was originally written by Julien Desfossez, with contribution from Mathieu Bain for the I/O
bandwidth view, and suggestions and ideas from the team working with the LTTng project. It is currently
maintained by Julien Desfossez <jdesfossez@efficios.com>
June 01, 2015 LTTNGTOP(1)