s3/doc: add missing documentation for vfs_time_audit
authorBjörn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:58:41 +0000 (16:58 +0100)
committerBjoern Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:13:24 +0000 (17:13 +0000)
Autobuild-User: Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
Autobuild-Date: Sat Nov 13 17:13:24 UTC 2010 on sn-devel-104

docs-xml/manpages-3/vfs_time_audit.8.xml [new file with mode: 0644]

diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/vfs_time_audit.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/vfs_time_audit.8.xml
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..fc71e28
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
+<refentry id="vfs_time_audit.8">
+
+<refmeta>
+       <refentrytitle>vfs_time_audit</refentrytitle>
+       <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+       <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
+       <refmiscinfo class="manual">System Administration tools</refmiscinfo>
+       <refmiscinfo class="version">3.6</refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+
+<refnamediv>
+       <refname>vfs_time_audit</refname>
+       <refpurpose>samba vfs module to log slow VFS operations</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+       <cmdsynopsis>
+               <command>vfs objects = time_audit</command>
+       </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+<refsect1>
+       <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
+
+       <para>This VFS module is part of the
+       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
+       <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
+
+       <para>The <command>time_audit</command> VFS module logs system calls
+       that take longer than the number of milliseconds defined by the variable
+       <command>time_audit:audit_timeout</command>. It will log the calls and
+       the time spent in it.
+       </para>
+
+       <para>It's kind of comparable with <command>strace -T</command> and
+       is helpful to reveal performance problems with the underlying file
+       and storage subsystems.</para>
+
+       <para>This module is stackable.</para>
+
+</refsect1>
+
+
+<refsect1>
+       <title>OPTIONS</title>
+
+       <variablelist>
+
+               <varlistentry>
+
+               <term>time_audit:audit_timeout = number of milliseconds</term>
+               <listitem>
+               <para>VFS calls that take longer than the defined number of milliseconds
+               that should be logged. The default is 10000 (10s).
+               </para>
+               </listitem>
+
+               </varlistentry>
+
+
+
+       </variablelist>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+       <title>EXAMPLES</title>
+
+       <para>This would log VFS calls that take longer than 3 seconds:</para>
+
+<programlisting>
+        <smbconfsection name="[sample_share]"/>
+       <smbconfoption name="path">/test/sample_share</smbconfoption>
+       <smbconfoption name="vfs objects">time_audit</smbconfoption>
+       <smbconfoption name="time_audit: audit_timeout">3000</smbconfoption>
+</programlisting>
+</refsect1>
+
+
+<refsect1>
+       <title>VERSION</title>
+       <para>This man page is correct for version 3.6.0 of the Samba suite.
+       </para>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+       <title>AUTHOR</title>
+
+       <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
+       were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
+       by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
+       to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
+
+       <para>The time_audit VFS module was created with contributions from
+       Abhidnya Chirmule.
+       </para>
+</refsect1>
+
+</refentry>