Re: [pcp] PCP playback process metrics from archives in human readable text format

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

----- Original Message -----
> Hi folks,
> 
> Can someone help me with cmdline examples of how to extract process metrics
> from archives for a specific time window? I guess pmcollectl doesn't have
> -sZ or process subsystem enabled, so I'm looking at the other available
> commandline tools such as pmdumptext, pminfo etc. to retrieve this.
> 
> I'm not looking at GUI/web options such as pmchart, vector etc. I've not been
> able to come up with retrieving data in a human readable format with
> timestamps so far. Any assistance would be most appreciated!
> 

In recent versions of PCP there is a pcp-atop(1) and a pcp-atopsar(1) which may
be what you're looking for here.  pmdumptext(1) and/or pmrep(1) with -S/-T 
should
also be able to give you the sort of reporting you're looking for here.

cheers.

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Nathan