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1 .TH "LTTNG-SESSIOND" "8" "January 31, 2012" "" ""
2
3 .SH "NAME"
4 lttng-sessiond \(em LTTng 2.x central tracing registry session daemon.
5
6 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
7
8 .PP
9 .nf
10 lttng-sessiond [OPTIONS]
11 .fi
12 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
13
14 .PP
15 The LTTng project aims at providing highly efficient tracing tools for Linux.
16 It's tracers help tracking down performance issues and debugging problems
17 involving multiple concurrent processes and threads. Tracing across multiple
18 systems is also possible.
19
20 The session daemon, acting as a tracing registry, allow you to interact with
21 multiple tracers (kernel and user-space) inside the same container, a tracing
22 session. Trace can be gathered from the kernel and/or instrumented applications
23 (lttng-ust(3)). Aggregating those traces is done using a viewer, like the
24 babeltrace(1) text viewer.
25
26 In order to trace the kernel, the session daemon needs to be running as root.
27 LTTng provides the use of a \fBtracing group\fP (default: tracing). Whomever is
28 in that group can interact with the root session daemon and thus trace the
29 kernel. Session daemons can co-exist meaning that you can have a session daemon
30 running as Alice that can be used to trace her applications along side with a
31 root daemon or even a Bob daemon. We highly recommend to start the session
32 daemon at boot time for stable and long term tracing.
33
34 The session daemon is in charge of managing trace data consumers by spawning
35 them when the time has come. The user don't need to manage the lttng-consumerd.
36 .SH "OPTIONS"
37
38 .PP
39 This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax with long options starting with
40 two dashes. Below is a summary of the available options.
41 .PP
42
43 .TP
44 .BR "-h, --help"
45 Show summary of possible options and commands
46 .TP
47 .BR "-v, --verbose"
48 Increase verbosity
49
50 There is three debugging level which will print on stderr. Maximum verbosity is
51 \fB-vvv\fP.
52 .TP
53 .BR " --verbose-consumer"
54 Verbose mode for consumer. Activate DBG() macro.
55 .TP
56 .BR "-d, --daemonize"
57 Start as a daemon
58 .TP
59 .BR "-b, --background"
60 Start as a daemon, keeping console open
61 .TP
62 .BR "-g, --group=NAME"
63 Specify the tracing group name. (default: tracing)
64 .TP
65 .BR "-V, --version"
66 Show version number
67 .TP
68 .BR "-S, --sig-parent"
69 Send SIGUSR1 to parent pid to notify readiness.
70
71 This is used by \fBlttng(1)\fP to get notified when the session daemon is ready
72 to accept command. When building a third party tool over liblttng-ctl, this option
73 can be very handy to synchronize the control tool and the session daemon.
74 .TP
75 .BR "-q, --quiet"
76 No output at all.
77 .TP
78 .BR " --no-kernel"
79 No kernel tracer support
80 .TP
81 .BR " --agent-tcp-port"
82 Agent application registration TCP port (default: 5345)
83 .TP
84 .BR " --kmod-probes=probe1, probe2, ..."
85 Specify the kernel modules containing LTTng probes to load by the session daemon.
86 Only the component name of the probe needs to be specified, e.g. to load the
87 lttng-probe-irq and lttng-probe-sched use: --kmod-probes="irq, sched".
88 .TP
89 .BR " --extra-kmod-probes=probe1, probe2, ..."
90 Specify extra kernel modules containing LTTng probes to be loaded by the session
91 daemon. The list follows the format of the \fB--kmod-probes\fP option.
92 This list is appended to the list provided by \fB--kmod-probes\fP or, if
93 \fB--kmod-probes\fP is missing, to the default list of probes.
94 .TP
95 .BR "-c, --client-sock=PATH"
96 Specify path for the client unix socket
97 .TP
98 .BR "-a, --apps-sock PATH"
99 Specify path for apps unix socket
100 .TP
101 .BR " --kconsumerd-err-sock=PATH"
102 Specify path for the kernel consumer error socket
103 .TP
104 .BR " --kconsumerd-cmd-sock=PATH
105 Specify path for the kernel consumer command socket
106 .TP
107 .BR " --ustconsumerd32-err-sock=PATH
108 Specify path for the 32-bit UST consumer error socket
109 .TP
110 .BR " --ustconsumerd64-err-sock=PATH
111 Specify path for the 64-bit UST consumer error socket
112 .TP
113 .BR " --ustconsumerd32-cmd-sock=PATH
114 Specify path for the 32-bit UST consumer command socket
115 .TP
116 .BR " --ustconsumerd64-cmd-sock=PATH
117 Specify path for the 64-bit UST consumer command socket
118 .TP
119 .BR " --consumerd32-path=PATH
120 Specify path for the 32-bit UST consumer daemon binary
121 .TP
122 .BR " --consumerd32-libdir=PATH
123 Specify path for the 32-bit UST consumer daemon libraries
124 .TP
125 .BR " --consumerd64-path=PATH
126 Specify path for the 64-bit UST consumer daemon binary
127 .TP
128 .BR " --consumerd64-libdir=PATH
129 Specify path for the 64-bit UST consumer daemon libraries
130 .TP
131 .BR "-l, --load PATH
132 Specify path from which to automatically load session configuration(s).
133
134 .SH "LOADING SESSIONS"
135
136 .PP
137 By default, the session daemon tries to load session configuration(s) located
138 in the user default directory \fB~/.lttng/sessions/auto/\fP and in the system
139 wide one in \fB/etc/lttng/sessions/auto/\fP. Note that the directory containing
140 the session's configuration and lttng-sessiond MUST have the same UID for them
141 to be automatically loaded.
142
143 Specifying a path with \-l, \-\-load PATH overrides the default directory and
144 UID check. The lttng-sessiond will simply check if it's accessible and try to
145 load every session file in it.
146 .PP
147
148 .SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
149
150 .PP
151 Note that all command line options will override environment variables.
152 .PP
153
154 .PP
155 .IP "LTTNG_CONSUMERD32_BIN"
156 Specify the 32-bit consumer binary path. \fB--consumerd32-path\fP
157 override this variable.
158 .IP "LTTNG_CONSUMERD64_BIN"
159 Specify the 64-bit consumer binary path. \fB--consumerd64-path\fP
160 override this variable.
161 .IP "LTTNG_CONSUMERD32_LIBDIR"
162 Specify the 64-bit library path containing libconsumer.so.
163 \fB--consumerd32-libdir\fP override this variable.
164 .IP "LTTNG_CONSUMERD64_LIBDIR"
165 Specify the 32-bit library path containing libconsumer.so.
166 \fB--consumerd64-libdir\fP override this variable.
167 .IP "LTTNG_DEBUG_NOCLONE"
168 Debug-mode disabling use of clone/fork. Insecure, but required to allow
169 debuggers to work with sessiond on some operating systems.
170 .IP "LTTNG_APP_SOCKET_TIMEOUT"
171 Control the timeout of application's socket when sending and receiving
172 commands. Takes an integer parameter: the timeout value, in seconds.
173 After this period of time, the application is unregistered by the
174 session daemon. A value of 0 or -1 means an infinite timeout. Default
175 value is 5 seconds.
176 .IP "LTTNG_NETWORK_SOCKET_TIMEOUT"
177 Control timeout of socket connection, receive and send. Takes an integer
178 parameter: the timeout value, in milliseconds. A value of 0 or -1 uses
179 the timeout of the operating system (this is the default).
180 .IP "LTTNG_SESSION_CONFIG_XSD_PATH"
181 Specify the path that contains the XML session configuration schema (xsd).
182 .IP "LTTNG_KMOD_PROBES"
183 Specify the kernel modules probes that should be loaded by the session daemon.
184 .IP "LTTNG_EXTRA_KMOD_PROBES"
185 Specify extra kernel modules probes that should be loaded by the session daemon.
186 .SH "SEE ALSO"
187
188 .PP
189 babeltrace(1), lttng-ust(3), lttng(1)
190 .PP
191
192 .SH "LIMITATIONS"
193
194 .PP
195 For unprivileged user running lttng-sessiond, the maximum number of file
196 descriptors per process is usually 1024. This limits the number of traceable
197 applications since for each instrumented application there is two file
198 descriptors per-CPU and one more socket for bidirectional communication.
199
200 For the root user, the limit is bumped to 65535. Future version will deal with
201 this limitation.
202 .PP
203
204 .SH "BUGS"
205
206 .PP
207 No show stopper bugs are known yet in this version.
208
209 If you encounter any issues or usability problem, please report it on our
210 mailing list <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org> to help improve this project.
211 .SH "CREDITS"
212
213 .PP
214 lttng-sessiond is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2. See the
215 file COPYING for details.
216 .PP
217 A Web site is available at http://lttng.org for more information on the LTTng
218 project.
219 .PP
220 You can also find our git tree at http://git.lttng.org.
221 .PP
222 Mailing lists for support and development: <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org>.
223 .PP
224 You can find us on IRC server irc.oftc.net (OFTC) in #lttng.
225 .PP
226 .SH "THANKS"
227
228 .PP
229 Thanks to Yannick Brosseau without whom this project would never have been so
230 lean and mean! Also thanks to the Ericsson teams working on tracing which helped
231 us greatly with detailed bug reports and unusual test cases.
232
233 Thanks to our beloved packager Alexandre Montplaisir-Goncalves (Ubuntu and PPA
234 maintainer) and Jon Bernard for our Debian packages.
235
236 Special thanks to Michel Dagenais and the DORSAL laboratory at Polytechnique de
237 Montreal for the LTTng journey.
238 .PP
239 .SH "AUTHORS"
240
241 .PP
242 lttng-tools was originally written by Mathieu Desnoyers, Julien Desfossez and
243 David Goulet. More people have since contributed to it. It is currently
244 maintained by Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>.
245 .PP
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