NAME

       nfsslower - Trace slow NFS file operations, with per-event details.

SYNOPSIS

       nfsslower [-h] [-j] [-p PID] [min_ms]

DESCRIPTION

       This  tool  traces  common NFSv3 & NFSv4 file operations: reads, writes, opens, and getattrs. It measures
       the time spent in these operations, and prints details for each that exceeded a threshold.

       WARNING: See the OVERHEAD section.

       By default, a minimum millisecond threshold of 10 is used. If a threshold of 0 is used,  all  events  are
       printed (warning: verbose).

       Since  this  works by tracing the nfs_file_operations interface functions, it will need updating to match
       any changes to these functions.

       This tool uses kprobes to instrument the kernel for entry and exit information, in the future a preferred
       way would be to use tracepoints.  Currently there aren't any  tracepoints  available  for  nfs_read_file,
       nfs_write_file  and  nfs_open_file,  nfs_getattr does have entry and exit tracepoints but we chose to use
       kprobes for consistency

       Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.

REQUIREMENTS

       CONFIG_BPF and bcc.

OPTIONS

       -p PID Trace this PID only.

       -j     Trace output in CSV format.

       min_ms Minimum I/O latency (duration) to trace, in milliseconds. Default is 10 ms.

EXAMPLES

       Trace synchronous file reads and writes slower than 10 ms:
              # nfsslower

       Trace slower than 1 ms:
              # nfsslower 1

       Trace slower than 1 ms, and output just the fields in parsable format (CSV):
              # nfsslower -j 1

       Trace all file reads and writes (warning: the output will be verbose):
              # nfsslower 0

       Trace slower than 1 ms, for PID 181 only:
              # nfsslower -p 181 1

FIELDS

       TIME(s)
              Time of I/O completion since the first I/O seen, in seconds.

       COMM   Process name.

       PID    Process ID.

       T      Type of operation. R == read, W == write, O == open, G == getattr.

       OFF_KB File offset for the I/O, in Kbytes.

       BYTES  Size of I/O, in bytes.

       LAT(ms)
              Latency (duration) of I/O, measured from when it was issued by VFS to the filesystem, to  when  it
              completed. This time is inclusive of RPC latency, network latency, cache lookup, remote fileserver
              processing  latency,  etc.   Its  a  more accurate measure of the latency suffered by applications
              performing NFS read/write calls to a fileserver.

       FILENAME
              A cached kernel file name (comes from dentry->d_name.name).

       ENDTIME_us
              Completion timestamp, microseconds (-j only).

       OFFSET_b
              File offset, bytes (-j only).

       LATENCY_us
              Latency (duration) of the I/O, in microseconds (-j only).

OVERHEAD

       This adds low-overhead instrumentation to NFS operations, including reads and writes from the file system
       cache. Such read, writes and particularly getattrs can be very frequent (depending on the  workload;  eg,
       1M/sec),  at  which  point  the overhead of this tool (even if it prints no "slower" events) can begin to
       become significant. Measure and quantify before  use.  If  this  continues  to  be  a  problem,  consider
       switching  to  a tool that prints in-kernel summaries only. This tool has been tested with NFSv3 & NVSv4,
       but it might work with NFSv{1,2}, since it is tracing the generic functions from nfs_file_operations.

       Note that the overhead of this tool should be less than fileslower(8), as this tool targets NFS functions
       only, and not all file read/write paths.

SOURCE

       This is from bcc.

              https://github.com/iovisor/bcc

       Also look in the bcc distribution for a companion nfsslower_examples.txt file containing  example  usage,
       output, and commentary for this tool.

OS

       Linux

STABILITY

       Unstable - in development.

AUTHOR

       Samuel Nair

SEE ALSO

       biosnoop(8), funccount(8), fileslower(8)

USER COMMANDS                                      2017-09-01                                       nfsslower(8)