fraubsd/nfsdtop

Display top I/O on NFS servers using bpftrace on Linux and DTrace on FreeBSD

Welcome to FrauBSD.org/nfsdtop!

Display top I/O on NFS servers using bpftrace

Foreword

The following is required before using git commit in this project.

$ .git-hooks/install.sh

This will ensure the FrauBSD keyword is expanded/updated for each commit.

nfsdtop's Issues

nfsdtop.linux does not count NFS4 write traffic

I think I have found a bug in nfsdtop.linux: It currently does not count any NFS4 write traffic.

Looking at the code, I see the following in kprobe:nfsd4_write:

@nfsd4_write_count[tid] = $nfsd4_write->wr_bytes_written;

That seems wrong. When the write function is entered, obviously 0 bytes have been written so far. We would need to read wr_bytes_written when the function returns instead, it will always contain 0 before the function runs.

As a workaround, I tried resorting to $nfsd4_write->wr_buflen instead. That does yield results that look far more in line with the actual network and disc traffic of the server I tried this on - but obviously it is prone to overcounting if not all bytes are written, e.g. because the user exceeded the quota. I'm unsure if there is a better fix, otherwise I'd propose a patch.

Thanks for this great tool!

ERROR: Could not resolve symbol: /proc/self/exe:BEGIN_trigger

I'm running nfsdtop on Linux (with sudo nfsdtop) and I'm getting the following error:

Interval: 2.000s                                                               Mon 19 Dec 2022 02:53:27 PM UTC
USER                   TOTAL    WRITE(IN)                            |                            READ(OUT)
INFO Waiting for bpftrace to initialize...
ERROR: Could not resolve symbol: /proc/self/exe:BEGIN_trigger

It's a virtual machine. Linux kernel version is 5.15.0-30-generic.