[svn] r4921 - in trunk/tools/dstat: . docs

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Author: dag
Date: 2006-11-21 20:38:06 +0100 (Tue, 21 Nov 2006)
New Revision: 4921

Modified:
   trunk/tools/dstat/TODO
   trunk/tools/dstat/docs/dstat.1.txt
   trunk/tools/dstat/docs/performance.txt
   trunk/tools/dstat/dstat
Log:
Leftover changes from the past.

Modified: trunk/tools/dstat/TODO
===================================================================
--- trunk/tools/dstat/TODO	2006-11-21 19:35:49 UTC (rev 4920)
+++ trunk/tools/dstat/TODO	2006-11-21 19:38:06 UTC (rev 4921)
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 + Allow to force to given magnitude (--unit=kilo)
 + Look at possibilities to show deviation (on second line ?)
 + Check for dark/light background color and change colors accordingly (see dstat.conf)
++ Show parts of counters in other colors (eg. color the 6 in 6134B in yellow to indicate it's kilobyte)
 
 ### Export/Graph
 + Interface with rrdtool (python-rrd ?)
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@
   (explaining the different values in /proc, especially the concerning ones)
 + Create document on general system performance tools
   (explaining the different uses of tools like dstat, iostat, pmap, strace, tcpdump)
++ Comply to PEP8: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
 
 ### General issues
 + Timer is not as accurate on 2.6 kernel as on 2.4, possibly scheduling differences

Modified: trunk/tools/dstat/docs/dstat.1.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/tools/dstat/docs/dstat.1.txt	2006-11-21 19:35:49 UTC (rev 4920)
+++ trunk/tools/dstat/docs/dstat.1.txt	2006-11-21 19:38:06 UTC (rev 4921)
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 dstat(1)
 ========
 Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>
-v0.6.3, Juni 2006
+v0.6.3svn, Juni 2006
 
 
 NAME
@@ -111,13 +111,13 @@
 	enable unix stats
 
 -M stat1,stat2::
-	enable internal and external stats
+	enable internal stats and external plugin stats
 
 Possible internal stats are::
   cpu, cpu24, disk, disk24, disk24old, int, int24, ipc, load, lock, mem,
   net, page, page24, proc, raw, swap, swapold, sys, tcp, time, udp, unix
 
-Possible external stats can be listed using::
+Possible external plugin stats can be listed using::
   dstat -M list
 
 -a, --all::
@@ -179,7 +179,12 @@
 dstat -taf --debug
 .....
 
+Using the external clock and app plugins together with normal system resources:::
+....
+dstat -M clock,app -cndylp
+....
 
+
 BUGS
 ----
 Since it's practically impossible to test dstat on every possible
@@ -194,7 +199,7 @@
 
 FILES
 -----
-Paths that may contain external dstat_* modules:
+Paths that may contain external dstat_* plugins:
 
 	~/.dstat/
 	./

Modified: trunk/tools/dstat/docs/performance.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/tools/dstat/docs/performance.txt	2006-11-21 19:35:49 UTC (rev 4920)
+++ trunk/tools/dstat/docs/performance.txt	2006-11-21 19:38:06 UTC (rev 4921)
@@ -35,7 +35,11 @@
 do take up cycles because the information is still being collected and
 possibly written to CSV output.
 
+It should be possible to write plugins in C to improve the impact on
+the system, but I have no experience with writing python modules in C.
+Any feedback on this is welcomed.
 
+
 Performance tuning
 ------------------
 The following documents may be useful to tune a system for performance

Modified: trunk/tools/dstat/dstat
===================================================================
--- trunk/tools/dstat/dstat	2006-11-21 19:35:49 UTC (rev 4920)
+++ trunk/tools/dstat/dstat	2006-11-21 19:38:06 UTC (rev 4921)
@@ -1652,9 +1652,9 @@
 	signal.alarm(interval)
 
 def exit(ret):
-	sys.stdout.write(ansi['reset'])
 	if 'signal' in sys.modules.keys():
 		signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, signal.SIG_DFL)
+	sys.stdout.write(ansi['reset'])
 	sys.exit(ret)
 
 def listmodules():