NAME¶

eventstat - a tool to measure system events.

SYNOPSIS¶

eventstat [-rcsv_file][-nevent_count][delay [count]]

DESCRIPTION¶

eventstat is a program that dumps the current active system events.

OPTIONS¶

eventstat options are as follow:

-h

show help

-n event_count

only display the first event_count number of top events.

-q

run quietly, only really makes sense with -r option.

-r csv_file

output gathered data in a comma separated values file. This can be then imported and graphed using your favourite open source spread sheet.

-t threshold

ignore samples where the event delta per second less than the given threshold

EXAMPLES¶

Dump events every second until stopped. Dump the top 20 events every 60 seconds until stopped. Dump events every 10 seconds just 5 times.

SEE ALSO¶

powertop(8)

AUTHOR¶

eventstat was written by Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> This manual page was written by Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>, for the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others).