[Darshan-users] A bug report and a feature request

[Bill Barth]

Thanks, Phil. I'll send you the log file via personal email. It's 2MB.

The --output option is probably fine. I didn't notice it. Thanks for the
heads up.

Best,
Bill.
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On 9/15/11 12:34 PM, "Phil Carns" <carns at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>On 09/15/2011 01:17 PM, Bill Barth wrote:
>> The Bug Report:
>>
>> I think that the summary.pdf has swapped the summaries for read and
>>write
>> in the "Data Transfer Per Filesystem" table. I'm happy to share a
>>logfile
>> if you can't reproduce on your end.
>
>That would be great if you could send us a log file example.  I just
>tried a quick test on an old log file and it looked Ok in that
>particular case.  It might depend on the contents of the log.
>
>> The Feature Request:
>>
>> darshan-job-summary.pl should produce its output pdf file based on the
>> name of the input logfile rather than calling it "summary.pdf".
>
>We could probably add a command line option to produce that behavior.
>In the mean time you can at least use the --output option to specify the
>file name.
>
>>
>> Finally, if y'all have any analysis tools for sifting through lots of
>> logfiles looking for things to care about, I'd love to try them.
>
>We don't have any great portable tools for looking at logs in aggregate
>yet.  There is one simple tool in test/darshan-gather-stats.pl (look at
>the comments at the top of the file for documentation) that can chug
>through a directory of darshan data and produce a text file with the
>amount of data and estimated performance for each job.  You could run
>that and then at least sort your jobs by performance or data usage or
>some intersection of the two.
>
>Kevin and others have been working on a web-based dashboard that produce
>several different views of darshan data, but I think it is probably kind
>of tied to our site-specific tools?
>
>-Phil
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bill.
>> --
>> Bill Barth, Ph.D., Director, HPC
>> bbarth at tacc.utexas.edu        |   Phone: (512) 232-7069
>> Office: ROC 1.435             |   Fax:   (512) 475-9445
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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