lat_pagefault(8)
NAME
lat_pagefault - measure the cost of pagefaulting pages from a file
SYNOPSIS
lat_pagefault [ -P <parallelism> ] [ -W <warmups> ] [ -N <repetitions> ] file [ file.... ]
DESCRIPTION
lat_pagefault times how fast a page of a file can be faulted in. The
file is flushed from (local) memory by using the msync() interface with
the invalidate flag set. (Note that NFS does not send this over the
wire so this makes for a handy way to measure the cost of going across
the wire.)
The benchmark maps in the entire file and the access pages backwards
using a stride of 256K kilobytes.
OUTPUT
Output format is below; it prints the average cost of page faulting a
page.
Pagefaults on <file>: <d> usecs
BUGS
Using a stride of 256K may be a bad idea because SCSI controllers may
have caches bigger than that.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Funding for the development of this tool was provided by Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Carl Staelin and Larry McVoy
- Comments, suggestions, and bug reports are always welcome.