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asotoaec
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Feb 07, 2024

Decode BIG-IP performance files

Hi everyone, I'm trying to extract the performance data from a QKview, this is to generate way charts and export automatic reports. I'm running into the problem because the files are encoded in a ...
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    Lucas_Thompson
    Feb 07, 2024

    Those files are TMM's idea of resource usage. Remember that TMM is a user space microkernel so it has its own scheduler and memory management. So its idea about "free memory" and "cpu use" is different than the linux kernel's. To read what its statistics are, you can use:

    tmctl -a -f <tmstat table file>

     

    This solution article has more information about it:

    https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K91433389

     

    These files are a binary-only format and the column alignments sometimes change by version so make sure to use matching version tmstat table files and tmctl binary.

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Lucas_Thompson
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Those files are TMM's idea of resource usage. Remember that TMM is a user space microkernel so it has its own scheduler and memory management. So its idea about "free memory" and "cpu use" is different than the linux kernel's. To read what its statistics are, you can use:

tmctl -a -f <tmstat table file>

 

This solution article has more information about it:

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K91433389

 

These files are a binary-only format and the column alignments sometimes change by version so make sure to use matching version tmstat table files and tmctl binary.

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boneyard
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Feb 10, 2024

Thanks Lucas.

 

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