Default output

The standard header (or initial fields displayed) include:

"%D %2c %8s %5T.%9t %5p %2a %3d "

Breaking this down:

%D
Displays the event's device major/minor as: %3d,%-3d.
%2c
CPU ID (2-character field).
%8s
Sequence number
%5T.%9t
5-charcter field for the seconds portion of the time stamp and a 9-character field for the nanoseconds in the time stamp.
%5p
5-character field for the process ID.
%2a
2-character field for one of the actions.
%3d
3-character field for the RWBS data.

Seeing this in action:

  8,0    3        1     0.000000000   697  G   W 223490 + 8 [kjournald]

The header is the data in this line up to the 223490 (starting block).

The default output for all event types includes this header.



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krzysiek 2007-01-30