Hi,
I'm forwarding email from our kernel guy who's counting syscall failures...
From IRC chat:
[10:47] <aarapov> SYSCALL PROCESS PID COUNT ERRSTR
ARGSTR
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_read firefox 4028 517 11
(EAGAIN) 3, 0x00000000025392f4, 4096
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_read konsole 4042 364 11
(EAGAIN) 8, 0x00000000010c7244, 4096
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_read X 2991 214 11
(EAGAIN) 52, 0x0000000001c80fc0, 7584
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_read klipper 3478 150 11
(EAGAIN) 14, 0x0000000000aa9814, 4096
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_read kopete 3449 23 11
(EAGAIN) 8, 0x00000000020c2e44, 4096
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_read kwin 3405 10 11
(EAGAIN) 7, 0x0000000000e80834, 4096
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_read plasma 3412 8 11
(EAGAIN) 3, 0x0000000001a5a9a4, 4096
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_read kwalletd 3459 6 11
(EAGAIN) 12, 0x0000000001d8a094, 4096
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_inotify_add_watch firefox 4028 4 2
(ENOENT) 57, "/home/aarapov/.local/share/applications", 16789446
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_read gpg-agent 3317 3 11
(EAGAIN) 3, 0x0000000000cd62e0, 128
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_newlstat plasma 3412 2 2
(ENOENT) "tmpfs", 0x00007fffbe0741f0
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_read kded4 3586 2 11
(EAGAIN) 8, 0x000000000072cd54, 4096
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_read kded4 3369 2 11
(EAGAIN) 8, 0x00000000020f7484, 4096
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_newlstat plasma 3412 1 2
(ENOENT) "swap", 0x00007fffbe0741f0
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_futex automount 4364 1 110
(ETIMEDOUT) 0x00007fb3b017af64, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 773
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_futex automount 4364 1 110
(ETIMEDOUT) 0x00007fb3b017af64, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 771
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_futex automount 4364 1 110
(ETIMEDOUT) 0x00007fb3b017af64, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 769
[10:47] <aarapov> sys_futex automount 4364 1 110
(ETIMEDOUT) 0x00007fb3b017af64, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 767
[10:48] <aarapov> sys_futex automount 4364 1 110
(ETIMEDOUT) 0x00007fb3b017af64, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 765
[10:48] <aarapov> sys_newlstat plasma 3412 1 13
(EACCES) "/dev/vg_mirror/lv_swap", 0x00007fffbe0741f0
[10:48] <aarapov> kde apps, 2nd place after firefox by having Errs from
various syscalls. :)
[10:48] <aarapov> place for imporvement.
[10:48] <aarapov> FYI. :)
[10:48] <aarapov> I can give you systemtap script that generates it.
[10:48] <aarapov> COUNT / per second
[10:49] <aarapov> for example, kopete does failing sys_read 23 times per
second.
[10:49] <jreznik> hmm
[10:49] <aarapov> the main question, that should arise - what the hell is he
doing ?
[10:50] <aarapov> :)
[10:50] <aarapov> this all for the case if your life needs to be more
interesting.
Jaroslav
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: systemtap script, counts syscall failures....
Date: Tuesday 07 April 2009
From: Anton Arapov <aarapov(a)redhat.com>
To: Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik(a)redhat.com>
Jaroslav,
how to use:
yum install systemtap
debuginfo-install kernel
# ./errsnoop.stp
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-Anton
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