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Commit b7d8c148 authored by Len Brown's avatar Len Brown
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tools/power turbostat: add --out option for saving output in a file 



By default...

Turbostat --debug gconfiguration info goes to stderr.

In FORK mode, turbostat statistics go to stderr.

In PERIODIC mode, turbostat statistics go to stdout.

These defaults do not change, but an option "--out file"
will send all output above only to the specified file.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
parent 75d2e44e

tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.8

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@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ more than once may also enable internal turbostat debug information. 
.PP

\fB--interval seconds\fP overrides the default 5.0 second measurement interval.

.PP

\fB--out output_file\fP turbostat output is written to the specified output_file.

The file is truncated if it already exists, and it is created if it does not exist.

.PP

\fB--help\fP displays usage for the most common parameters.

.PP

\fB--Joules\fP displays energy in Joules, rather than dividing Joules by time to print power in Watts.
@@ -83,10 +86,11 @@ Note that multiple CPUs per core indicate support for Intel(R) Hyper-Threading T 
\fBRAM_%\fP percent of the interval that RAPL throttling was active on DRAM.

.fi

.PP

.SH EXAMPLE

.SH PERIODIC EXAMPLE

Without any parameters, turbostat displays statistics ever 5 seconds.

(override interval with "-i sec" option, or specify a command

for turbostat to fork).

Periodic output goes to stdout, by default, unless --out is used to specify an output file.

The 5-second interval can be changed with th "-i sec" option.

Or a command may be specified as in "FORK EXAMPLE" below.

.nf

[root@hsw]# ./turbostat

     CPU Avg_MHz   Busy% Bzy_MHz TSC_MHz
@@ -171,7 +175,9 @@ The --debug option adds additional columns to the measurement ouput, including C 
See the field definitions above.

.SH FORK EXAMPLE

If turbostat is invoked with a command, it will fork that command

and output the statistics gathered when the command exits.

and output the statistics gathered after the command exits.

In this case, turbostat output goes to stderr, by default.

Output can instead be saved to a file using the --out option.

eg. Here a cycle soaker is run on 1 CPU (see %c0) for a few seconds

until ^C while the other CPUs are mostly idle:

tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c

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