The utility glocktop_analyze.py analyzes the output generated by glocktop monitoring a gfs2 filesystems. The output is printed to console or to html format which can include graphs.

Clone the git repo sbradley7777/glocktop_analyze.

$ mkdir ~/github
$ git clone https://github.com/sbradley7777/glocktop_analyze.git

The only requires for glocktop_analyze is python to do basic analyzing of glocktop files. For generating graphs and clean html files then the following is required:

• python-beautifulsoup4: For pretty formatted html.
• pygal: For graph support when html files are created. Graphs are created in .svg format by default.
• lxml, cairosvg, tinycss, cssselect: For creating graphs in .png format.

Add the glocktop_analyze to your PYTHONPATH enviroment variable. Edit ~/.bash_profile and add the following to PYTHONPATH. If the variable does not exist then create and export the varaible.

export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/github/glocktop_analyze:

Add an alias for glocktop_analyze.py to the file ~/.bashrc.

alias glocktop_analyze.py='~/github/glocktop_analyze/glocktop_analyze.py ';

Log out of console or run the following command:

$ source ~/.bash_profile; source ~/.bashrc

Then run the following to see if script works and loads libraries.

$ glocktop_analyze.py -h

There is an RPM spec file in the repo that can be used to build an glocktop_analyze rpm.

$ rpmbuild -ba glocktop_analyze.spec

Install the rpm

$ sudo rpm -ivh glocktop_analyze*.rpm

Analyze a directory containing glocktop files and output to a directory.\n"

$ glocktop_analyze.py -p /tmp/glocktop_files/ -o /var/www/html/glocktop_data

Analyze multiple files.

$ glocktop_analyze.py -p /tmp/glocktop_files/glocktop.node*

Analyze a single file and configure some of the plugins options.

$ glocktop_analyze.py -p /tmp/glocktop_files/glocktop.node1 -k glocks_activity.mininum_waiter_count=7 -k glocks_in_snapshots.mininum_glocks_in_snapshots=11

Analyze a single file and disable html format and show ended processes.

$ glocktop_analyze.py -p /tmp/glocktop_files/glocktop.node1 -T -I

Analyze a particular filesystem only.

$ glocktop_analyze.py -p /tmp/glocktop_files/glocktop.node1 -n mygfs2fs

Analyze a single file and enable only a specific set of plugins and disable html format.

# glocktop_analyze.py -p /tmp/glocktop_files/glocktop.node1  -e snapshots-multiply_nodes -e snapshots -T

The utility merges gfs2 filesystem lockdumps (glocks files) captured with gfs2_lockcapture to a format that can be processed with glocktop_analyze.py script.

This command will create files that glocktop_analyze can read in the current working directory of ./glock_dump_merge from the files that are found under directory glocktop_analyze. The command glock_dump_merge.py expects the files in that directory were captured with gfs2_lockcapture.

$ glock_dump_merge.py -p ./gfs2_lockcapture-2016-04-22/ -o ./glock_dump_merge

• Source Code for glocktop
• Source Code for gfs2_lockcapture
• Article on capturing gfs2 debug data when gfs2 is having a performance problem and not hung with glocktop: How can I view glock contention on a gfs2 filesystem in real-time in a RHEL 5, 6, or 7 Resilient Storage cluster?
• Article on caputring gfs2 debug data when gfs2 is hung with gfs2_lockcapture: What data should I gather when access to a gfs2 filesystem appears to be hung or unresponsive on RHEL 5, RHEL 6, or RHEL 7?