The perflook script is a tool used to analyze performance behavior of Teradata at the current time.

When to use perflook:

• The database appears slow or hung: Teradata users are not able to log on to the database, queries are not returning, but you can still access TPA nodes.
• Queries are running much slower than normal. For example, queries that normally run in minutes are now taking hours.
• If you see messages like “hot amp,” “high CPU usage,” or “high disk I/O” from Viewpoint system monitor.

 

How to use Perflook:

# /opt/teradata/gsctools/bin/perflook

2018-07-09 13:29:05 - Running /opt/teradata/gsctools/bin/perflook version # 01.00.00.18

2018-07-09 13:29:06 - Running node level collects

2018-07-09 13:29:49 - Running some automated checks for commonly known performance problems

Archive and compressing perflook.2018-07-09-1329_1-1 files for downloading...

/var/opt/teradata/gsctools/perflook/perflook.2018-07-09-1329_1-1.zip is ready to download.

2018-07-09 13:29:49 - Finished...

 

The zipped output file is created in the following directory:

• /var/opt/teradata/gsctools/perflook/

 

If the database appears hung, perflook may also hang. In this case, use the -d option:

# /opt/teradata/gsctools/bin/perflook -d

 

Options in Perflook:

    -h  Print help usage information and exit.

 

    -v  Print script version and exit.

 

    -auto

        Used when perflook is called from another script (ex: canary query),

        this option is used as a headless option.

 

    -l  Enable long verbose mode; stores additional ouput of collected in

        file puma.TAXlll.

 

    -m  Enable memory dumps mode; stores additional output of collected data

        in files, mm-c and prgtrace.txt.

 

    -d  disables collection of output from database utilities, including

        qrysessn and showlocks

 

    -s  Single/Same one node information gathering only Overrides any

        supplied list of <nodes>

 

    -t  Enable stacktraces capture. The output of 'puma -B' is collected.

        WARNING: Running puma -B can cause a severe impact on system

        performance.

 

    -B  Enable stacktraces capture. The output of 'puma -B' is collected.

        WARNING: Running puma -B can cause a severe impact on system

        performance.

 

    nodes

        An optional comma-separated list of bynet nodes, if not specified

        data is collected from all nodes on the bynet.

 

        Note: With the -l and/or -m options the output can be huge, these

        options are not recommended on large sites unless <nodes> list is

        also provided to narrow the collection scope. <nodes> must be the

        last argument on the command line.