Visual Statistics Display User's Guide

1. VSD Overview

• 1.1 Statmonitor and VSD

  • Statmonitor in the GemStone server

    • Statmonitor statistics data files

    • File Size

  • GBS Stat Monitor in GBS

    • GBS statistics data files

• 1.2 Installing VSD

  • Distribution

  • Installation on all platforms

2. VSD’s Graphical Interface

• 2.1 Starting VSD

• 2.2 Main VSD Window

  • Loading data for viewing

    • Loading an existing statmonitor file

    • Updating the view if the data file is updated

    • Loading Multiple Files

    • Subsecond sample times

    • Monitoring statistics on a running GemStone server

  • Process List

    • Sorting

    • Selecting Process

    • Selecting Sets of Processes

  • Statistics List

  • Controlling visibility of statistics

    • Hiding statistics with only values of zero

    • Statistics Level

    • Meaning of statistics

  • Selecting and viewing statistics

• 2.3 VSD Statistics Chart

  • Chart Window

  • Chart Options

    • Zoom

    • Time Format

  • Selecting a Line

  • Copying value from a line

  • Changing Line Options

    • Filters

    • Scaling

    • Other Transformations

    • Summary of Information on a line

    • Summary of Information on a section of line

  • Other ways to control the view

    • Combining statistics values for multiple processes

    • Graphing against scales on both right and left side Y-axis

    • Rolling Left Trim

  • Process names in GemStone

  • Changing Hours Offset

  • Commas in Numbers

• 2.4 Using and Creating Templates

  • Gem and Pageserver Names in Templates

• 2.5 Working with Multiple Files

  • Loading multiple data files

    • Loading multiple Individual data sets

    • Loading multiple files as a single data set

  • Current File and the file mode

  • Chart with Statistics from Multiple Files

  • Comparing statistics for multiple sequential runs

• 2.6 Aliases for statistic names

  • Global aliases

  • Process-specific alias names

    • Managing aliases in VSD support files

  • Alias templates for system operations statistics

    • Applying internal operation alias templates to application Gems

    • Removing Aliases

• 2.7 Setting Background Color

• 2.8 Menu Options

  • Main Window Main Menu

  • Main Window File Menu

  • Main Window Chart Menu

  • Main Window Template Menu

  • Main Window Help Menu

  • Process List Pane Pop-up Menu

  • Chart Window Chart Menu

  • Chart Window Line Menu

3. VSD Template and configuration files

• 3.1 VSD Configuration Files

  • .vsdconfig

  • .vsdrc

  • Configuration file format

    • Main Window options

  • Chart Window Display Options

    • Monitor Window Options

    • Window locations and display

• 3.2 VSD Chart Templates

  • VSD Templates File

  • Template Syntax

• 3.3 Data in VSD TCL files

  • Effect of statistic type on combined lines

A. VSD Command-Line Syntax

B. Statistics Reference

• B.1 GemStone Server process Statistics

• B.2 System Statistics on Linux

• B.3 System Statistics on Solaris

• B.4 System Statistics on AIX

• B.5 GBS Statistics