On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:01 -0400, Mark Seger wrote:
> perhaps you haven't drunk the collectl kool-aid yet.  9-)

I have been reading the discussion about collectl, yes.

> with collectl you can dynamically monitor lots of system resources in 
> real-time including lustre.  here's an example on a system using GigE as 
> the interconnect but I could just have easily choses to show IB, memory 
> or a variety of other types of data.  I could log it to a file and play 
> it back later or even convert it to a form suitable for plotting with 
> gnuplot.

Yeah.  I understand all of that.

> my point is I want to see what lustre is doing (or at least thinks it's 
> doing).  Is there a way to tell dymamically how many statfs calls it's 
> making?  I guess I would have thought that the MDS would track something 
> like this.

Hrm.  I'm not following how this relates to your query about "a non-zero
value for statfs".  I was assuming you found a counter for statfs and
didn't know what could trigger it being increased.  That is what I was
answering to.

> Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:23 -0400, Mark Seger wrote:
> >   
> >> In 
> >> particular I'm looking at a non-zero value for statfs but no matter what 
> >> I do it doesn't change!
> >>     
> >
> > Not surprising.  "man statfs".  Not something I'd expect a lot of calls
> > to from common userspace applications.  (Untested but) Trying using
> > "stat(1)" with the "-f" argument on your lustre mount point and see if
> > that bumps up the counter.
> >
> > b.

b.

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