Provided by: lttng-tools_2.7.1-2ubuntu1_amd64 
NAME
lttng-sessiond - LTTng 2.x central tracing registry session daemon.
SYNOPSIS
lttng-sessiond [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
The LTTng project aims at providing highly efficient tracing tools for Linux. It's tracers help tracking
down performance issues and debugging problems involving multiple concurrent processes and threads.
Tracing across multiple systems is also possible.
The session daemon, acting as a tracing registry, allow you to interact with multiple tracers (kernel and
user-space) inside the same container, a tracing session. Trace can be gathered from the kernel and/or
instrumented applications (lttng-ust(3)). Aggregating those traces is done using a viewer, like the
babeltrace(1) text viewer.
In order to trace the kernel, the session daemon needs to be running as root. LTTng provides the use of
a tracing group (default: tracing). Whomever is in that group can interact with the root session daemon
and thus trace the kernel. Session daemons can co-exist meaning that you can have a session daemon
running as Alice that can be used to trace her applications along side with a root daemon or even a Bob
daemon. We highly recommend to start the session daemon at boot time for stable and long term tracing.
The session daemon is in charge of managing trace data consumers by spawning them when the time has come.
The user don't need to manage the lttng-consumerd.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax with long options starting with two dashes. Below
is a summary of the available options.
-h, --help
Show summary of possible options and commands
-V, --version
Show version.
-v, --verbose
Increase verbosity
There is three debugging level which will print on stderr. Maximum verbosity is -vvv.
--verbose-consumer
Verbose mode for consumer. Activate DBG() macro.
-d, --daemonize
Start as a daemon
-b, --background
Start as a daemon, keeping console open
-g, --group=NAME
Specify the tracing group name. (default: tracing)
-V, --version
Show version number
-S, --sig-parent
Send SIGUSR1 to parent pid to notify readiness.
This is used by lttng(1) to get notified when the session daemon is ready to accept command. When
building a third party tool over liblttng-ctl, this option can be very handy to synchronize the
control tool and the session daemon.
-q, --quiet
No output at all.
--no-kernel
No kernel tracer support
--agent-tcp-port
Agent application registration TCP port (default: 5345)
--kmod-probes=probe1, probe2, ...
Specify the kernel modules containing LTTng probes to load by the session daemon. Only the
component name of the probe needs to be specified, e.g. to load the lttng-probe-irq and lttng-
probe-sched use: --kmod-probes="irq, sched".
--extra-kmod-probes=probe1, probe2, ...
Specify extra kernel modules containing LTTng probes to be loaded by the session daemon. The list
follows the format of the --kmod-probes option. This list is appended to the list provided by
--kmod-probes or, if --kmod-probes is missing, to the default list of probes.
-c, --client-sock=PATH
Specify path for the client unix socket
-a, --apps-sock PATH
Specify path for apps unix socket
--kconsumerd-err-sock=PATH
Specify path for the kernel consumer error socket
--kconsumerd-cmd-sock=PATH
Specify path for the kernel consumer command socket
--ustconsumerd32-err-sock=PATH
Specify path for the 32-bit UST consumer error socket
--ustconsumerd64-err-sock=PATH
Specify path for the 64-bit UST consumer error socket
--ustconsumerd32-cmd-sock=PATH
Specify path for the 32-bit UST consumer command socket
--ustconsumerd64-cmd-sock=PATH
Specify path for the 64-bit UST consumer command socket
--consumerd32-path=PATH
Specify path for the 32-bit UST consumer daemon binary
--consumerd32-libdir=PATH
Specify path for the 32-bit UST consumer daemon libraries
--consumerd64-path=PATH
Specify path for the 64-bit UST consumer daemon binary
--consumerd64-libdir=PATH
Specify path for the 64-bit UST consumer daemon libraries
-l, --load PATH
Specify path from which to automatically load session configuration(s).
-f, --config PATH
Specify path from which to load daemon configuration.
LOADING SESSIONS
By default, the session daemon tries to load session configuration(s) located in the user default
directory ~/.lttng/sessions/auto/ and in the system wide one in /etc/lttng/sessions/auto/. Note that the
directory containing the session's configuration and lttng-sessiond MUST have the same UID for them to be
automatically loaded.
Specifying a path with -l, --load PATH overrides the default directory and UID check. The lttng-sessiond
will simply check if it's accessible and try to load every session file in it.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
Note that all command line options will override environment variables.
LTTNG_CONSUMERD32_BIN
Specify the 32-bit consumer binary path. --consumerd32-path override this variable.
LTTNG_CONSUMERD64_BIN
Specify the 64-bit consumer binary path. --consumerd64-path override this variable.
LTTNG_CONSUMERD32_LIBDIR
Specify the 64-bit library path containing libconsumer.so. --consumerd32-libdir override this
variable.
LTTNG_CONSUMERD64_LIBDIR
Specify the 32-bit library path containing libconsumer.so. --consumerd64-libdir override this
variable.
LTTNG_DEBUG_NOCLONE
Debug-mode disabling use of clone/fork. Insecure, but required to allow debuggers to work with
sessiond on some operating systems.
LTTNG_APP_SOCKET_TIMEOUT
Control the timeout of application's socket when sending and receiving commands. Takes an integer
parameter: the timeout value, in seconds. After this period of time, the application is
unregistered by the session daemon. A value of 0 or -1 means an infinite timeout. Default value is
5 seconds.
LTTNG_NETWORK_SOCKET_TIMEOUT
Control timeout of socket connection, receive and send. Takes an integer parameter: the timeout
value, in milliseconds. A value of 0 or -1 uses the timeout of the operating system (this is the
default).
LTTNG_SESSION_CONFIG_XSD_PATH
Specify the path that contains the XML session configuration schema (xsd).
LTTNG_KMOD_PROBES
Specify the kernel modules probes that should be loaded by the session daemon.
LTTNG_EXTRA_KMOD_PROBES
Specify extra kernel modules probes that should be loaded by the session daemon.
SEE ALSO
babeltrace(1), lttng-ust(3), lttng(1)
LIMITATIONS
For unprivileged user running lttng-sessiond, the maximum number of file descriptors per process is
usually 1024. This limits the number of traceable applications since for each instrumented application
there is two file descriptors per-CPU and one more socket for bidirectional communication.
For the root user, the limit is bumped to 65535. Future version will deal with this limitation.
BUGS
No show stopper bugs are known yet in this version.
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
lttng-sessiond is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2. See the file COPYING for
details.
A Web site is available at http://lttng.org for more information on the LTTng project.
You can also find our git tree at http://git.lttng.org.
Mailing lists for support and development: <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org>.
You can find us on IRC server irc.oftc.net (OFTC) in #lttng.
THANKS
Thanks to Yannick Brosseau without whom this project would never have been so lean and mean! Also thanks
to the Ericsson teams working on tracing which helped us greatly with detailed bug reports and unusual
test cases.
Thanks to our beloved packager Alexandre Montplaisir-Goncalves (Ubuntu and PPA maintainer) and Jon
Bernard for our Debian packages.
Special thanks to Michel Dagenais and the DORSAL laboratory at Polytechnique de Montreal for the LTTng
journey.
AUTHORS
lttng-tools was originally written by Mathieu Desnoyers, Julien Desfossez and David Goulet. More people
have since contributed to it. It is currently maintained by Jérémie Galarneau
<jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>.
January 31, 2012 LTTNG-SESSIOND(8)