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diff --git a/doc/README.utils b/doc/README.utils index c6cb929..b55333a 100644 --- a/doc/README.utils +++ b/doc/README.utils @@ -2,18 +2,18 @@ Systemtap disk and network statistic monitoring tools ===================================================== The netdevstat and diskdevstat are 2 systemtap tools that allow the user to -collect detailed information about network and disk aktivity of all -applications running on a system. These 2 tools were insipred by powertop, -which shows the wakeups of applications per second. +collect detailed information about network and disk activity of all +applications running on a system. These 2 tools were inspired by powertop, +which shows number of wakeups for every application per second. -The basic idea is to collect statistic about the running applications in a -form that allows a user to identify applications that behave power -inefficient, meaning instead of doing fewer and bigger IO operations they -do more and smaller ones. Current monitoring tools typically only show -the transfer speeds which isn't very meaningful in that context. +The basic idea is to collect statistic about the running applications in +a form that allows a user to identify power greedy applications. +That means f.e. instead of doing fewer and bigger IO operations they +do more and smaller ones. Current monitoring tools show typically only +the transfer speeds, which isn't very meaningful in that context. -To run them you need to have systemtap and kernel-debuginfo installed. -If both are installed a simple +To run those tools, you need to have systemtap installed. +Then you can simply type netdevstat @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ or diskdevstat -will start the scripts. Both can take up to 3 parameters: +and the scripts will start. Both can take up to 3 parameters: diskdevstat [Update interval] [Total duration] [Display histogram at the end] netdevstat [Update interval] [Total duration] [Display histogram at the end] |