jlol@REMUS.EE.BYU.EDU (Jay Lawlor) (12/19/90)
Has anyone out there ever made use of the seestat(8) utility on the
Convex machines? I have been trying to use it but apparently it
expects a printronix (?) type printer to print out the graphs it
makes. Our laser printer sure didn't like it. There are no options
for any other type of output.
These are the statistics it is supposed to let you see, plotted over a
period of a day or week, etc.:
1. Buffered I/O latency 2. Buffered I/O Mb/s
3. Buffered I/O hits % 4. Disk Mb/s
5. Stripe Mb/s 6. Network packets in
7. Network packets out 8. Network input errors
9. Network output errors 10. Network collisions
11. CPU user time pct 12. CPU niced time pct
13. CPU system time pct 14. CPU idle time pct
15. Virtual memory activated 16. Free virtual memory
17. Page ins/sec 18. Page outs/sec
19. Device interrupts/sec 20. System calls/sec
21. Load average 22. Disk request size
23. Real memory available 24. System users
25. Page reclaims/sec 26. Page faults/sec
27. Page hits % 28. Total # processes
29. Pages scanned by clock/sec 30. Context switches/sec
We are running release 8.1 of the OS, and seestat came with the release.
I found the source code for seestat (and associated stat daemon) on a
Convex users group archive but it was about 4 years old and is
completely outdated. I was hoping to modify it to ouput postscript or
display under X windows, etc.
Does anyone (who can give it out) have current source for seestat, and
better yet, a good way to display the output? Obviously Convex has
kept their version somewhat current since they distribute the binaries
with the system.
If you can help me, email (jlol@ee.byu.edu) or post.
Thanks.
Jayjlol@REMUS.EE.BYU.EDU (Jay Lawlor) (12/19/90)
Oh, I forgot. Even just knowing the format of the files created by the stat daemon that Convex ships would be helpful. If you can help me, email (jlol@ee.byu.edu) or post. Thanks. Jay