Re: nfsstat --sleep=#

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

Chuck Lever wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2009, at Mar 12, 2009, 3:32 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:22:32PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>> Actually I would rather see the performance metrics scripts improved.
>>> These tools give a lot more information than nfsstat ever will be able
>>> to.
>>
>> Probably so, but those scripts are a bit hard to find, aren't they?
>>
>> We should
>>     - get distributions to install them by default
>>     - write man pages?
>>     - add references to them where possible (from the nfsstat man
>>       page, from howto's/faq's/?)
> 
> Steve promised me Red Hat would take care of this when these were added
> to nfs-utils last year.
Not sure what I exactly promised (that's usually not my style 8-) )
but those scripts definitely fell off my radar...  

> 
>> Until then, unfortunately, improvements to nfsstat are more useful,
>> since nfsstat is the thing people are more likely to run across.
> 
> Again, I think improving nfsstat at this point (which is merely for
> compatibility with Solaris) would be wasted work, if we already have
> what is needed in another tool.  The Python tools are much more
> sophisticated, and it would be confusing to add their functionality to
> nfsstat (e.g. why can I zero the legacy stats with the -z option, but
> not the stats the come from /proc/self/mountstats?).
> 
> Let's spend the effort on the tools that give us deeper results.
I have to agree... I truly think there is a wealth of untapped information
in those mountstats... Just waiting for someone to dip them out...

steved.