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    Performance Counters in Htop 3.0: Hisham Muhammad

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    The document outlines a presentation about new performance monitoring features in the htop system monitoring tool. It introduces the presenter and their background with htop and other projects. It then discusses htop's existing metrics and new additions in version 3.0 like hardware performance counters, I/O metrics, and support for multiple screens of metrics. Screenshots are provided demonstrating these new features.

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    The document outlines a presentation about new performance monitoring features in the htop system monitoring tool. It introduces the presenter and their background with htop and other projects. It then discusses htop's existing metrics and new additions in version 3.0 like hardware performance counters, I/O metrics, and support for multiple screens of metrics. Screenshots are provided demonstrating these new features.

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    Talk: Perf counters in htop 3.0


    Presenter: https://hisham.hm
    PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command

    Performance counters
    in htop 3.0
    Hisham Muhammad
    @hisham_hm@mastodon.social
    https://hisham.hm
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    About me

    original author of htop, a project started in 2004


    http://hisham.hm/htop/
    lead dev of LuaRocks, package manager for Lua
    http://luarocks.org/
    co-founder of the GoboLinux distribution
    http://gobolinux.org/
    developer at Kong – FLOSS API gateway
    http://getkong.org/ (we’re hiring!)
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    What is htop

    an interactive process manager


    intended to be “a better top”
    by this all I originally meant was: scrolling!

    (versions of top improved a lot since!)


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    Hello, htop!
    Slide: [ 5] Date: 2018-08-25
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    htop beyond Linux

    Linux
    MacOS
    FreeBSD
    OpenBSD
    DragonFlyBSD
    Solaris (illumos)
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    Then Apple released a broken kernel...


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    This has just arrived!


    Slide: [ 8] Date: 2018-08-25
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    htop’s <3 belongs to Linux

    Having the crossplatform layer doesn’t mean a


    lowest common denominator

    Each platform can and has its own metrics

    Linuxdev-br 2017 gave me ideas...


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    Metrics in htop

    I started with the default set of top

    Most people don't go beyond the default settings

    (A lot of people don't even know about tree view!)


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    htop has a lot more!

    hit F2 (or uppercase C) to enter Setup and play around:


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    I/O metrics

    inspired by iotop
    these have in fact been available in htop for
    years!
    IO_RATE
    IO_READ_RATE
    IO_WRITE_RATE
    IO_PRIORITY
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    I/O metrics
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    Delay accounting

    contributed by André Carvalho


    PERCENT_CPU_DELAY
    PERCENT_IO_DELAY
    PERCENT_SWAP_DELAY
    requires libnl for Netlink support
    to learn more about delay accounting:
    https://andrestc.com/post/linux-delay-accounting/
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    Hardware Performance Counters

    low-overhead performance metrics

    managed by the Linux kernel

    available in userspace via perf-tools


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    Using performance counters

    1) perform a syscall to request a counter


    2) syscall returns a file descriptor
    3) periodically read the file descriptor
    be aware: fds and perf counters are a limited
    resource!

    based on tiptop by Erven Rohou and Antoine Naudin


    https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00639173
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    Performance counters in htop

    IPC Instructions per cycle


    MCYCLE Cycles (millions)
    MINSTR Instructions (millions)
    PERCENT_MISS Cache misses per 100 insns
    PERCENT_BMISS Branch mispr. per 100 insns
    L1DREADS L1 data cache reads (Ks)
    L1DRMISSES L1 data cache read misses
    L1DWRITES L1 data cache writes
    L1DWMISSES L1 data cache write misses
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    Multiple screens

    making a larger number of metrics usable

    press [Tab] to switch screens

    required a larger change to the format of htoprc


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    Demo time!
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    Screenshot time: Perf


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    Screenshot time: L1
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    Screenshot time: Screens


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    Availability

    I/O metrics and delay accounting:


    htop 2.1.0 and up

    performance counters and multiple screens:


    htop 3.0.0beta5

    Linux-only! (patches welcome!)


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    Thank you!

    https://hisham.hm/htop/

    https://github.com/hishamhm/htop
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    What’s next

    New header meters? Per-screen headers?

    More perf counters?

    PS: check out the lua branch

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