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-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erlang.xml108
-rw-r--r--erts/test/otp_SUITE.erl3
2 files changed, 85 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index fbe7b36163..8c438b0bd7 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -4881,6 +4881,7 @@ true</pre>
<v>Type, Res -- see below</v>
</type>
<desc>
+ <p>All times are in milliseconds unless otherwise specified.</p>
<p>Returns information about the system as specified by
<c>Type</c>:</p>
<taglist>
@@ -4894,15 +4895,20 @@ true</pre>
<item>
<p>Returns
<c>{Total_Exact_Reductions, Exact_Reductions_Since_Last_Call}</c>.</p>
- <p><em>NOTE:</em><c>statistics(exact_reductions)</c> is
- a more expensive operation than
- <seealso marker="#statistics_reductions">statistics(reductions)</seealso>
- especially on an Erlang machine with SMP support.</p>
+ <note><p><c>statistics(exact_reductions)</c> is
+ a more expensive operation than
+ <seealso marker="#statistics_reductions">statistics(reductions)</seealso>
+ especially on an Erlang machine with SMP support.</p>
+ </note>
</item>
<tag><c>garbage_collection</c></tag>
<item>
<p>Returns <c>{Number_of_GCs, Words_Reclaimed, 0}</c>. This
information may not be valid for all implementations.</p>
+ <pre>
+> <input>statistics(garbage_collection).</input>
+{85,23961,0}
+</pre>
</item>
<tag><c>io</c></tag>
<item>
@@ -4914,12 +4920,18 @@ true</pre>
<tag><marker id="statistics_reductions"><c>reductions</c></marker></tag>
<item>
<p>Returns
- <c>{Total_Reductions, Reductions_Since_Last_Call}</c>.</p>
- <p><em>NOTE:</em> From erts version 5.5 (OTP release R11B)
- this value does not include reductions performed in current
- time slices of currently scheduled processes. If an
- exact value is wanted, use
- <seealso marker="#statistics_exact_reductions">statistics(exact_reductions)</seealso>.</p>
+ <c>{Total_Reductions, Reductions_Since_Last_Call}</c>.</p>
+ <note>
+ <p>From erts version 5.5 (OTP release R11B)
+ this value does not include reductions performed in current
+ time slices of currently scheduled processes. If an
+ exact value is wanted, use
+ <seealso marker="#statistics_exact_reductions">statistics(exact_reductions)</seealso>.</p>
+ </note>
+ <pre>
+> <input>statistics(reductions).</input>
+{2046,11}
+</pre>
</item>
<tag><c>run_queue</c></tag>
<item>
@@ -4932,20 +4944,72 @@ true</pre>
Note that the run-time is the sum of the run-time for all
threads in the Erlang run-time system and may therefore be greater
than the wall-clock time.</p>
+ <pre>
+> <input>statistics(runtime).</input>
+{1690,1620}
+</pre>
</item>
<tag><marker id="statistics_scheduler_wall_time"><c>scheduler_wall_time</c></marker></tag>
<item>
- <p>Returns
- <c>[{Scheduler_Id, Scheduler_Worked_Time, Scheduler_Total_Time}]</c>, time lapses are since the
- the system flag <seealso marker="#system_flag_scheduler_wall_time">scheduler_wall_time</seealso>
- was set to true.
+ <p>Returns a list of tuples with
+ <c>{SchedulerId, ActiveTime, TotalTime}</c>, where <c>SchedulerId</c> is an integer id of the scheduler, <c>ActiveTime</c> is
+ the duration the scheduler has been busy, <c>TotalTime</c> is the total time duration since
+ <seealso marker="#system_flag_scheduler_wall_time">scheduler_wall_time</seealso>
+ activation. The time unit is not defined and may be subject to change
+ between releases, operating systems and system restarts.
+ <c>scheduler_wall_time</c> should only be used to calculate relative
+ values for scheduler-utilization. <c>ActiveTime</c> can never exceed <c>TotalTime</c>.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>The definition of a busy scheduler is when it is not idle or not
+ scheduling (selecting) a process or port, meaning; executing process
+ code, executing linked-in-driver or NIF code, executing
+ built-in-functions or any other runtime handling, garbage collecting
+ or handling any other memory management. Note, a scheduler may also be
+ busy even if the operating system has scheduled out the scheduler
+ thread.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
Returns <c>undefined</c> if the system flag <seealso marker="#system_flag_scheduler_wall_time">
- scheduler_wall_time</seealso> is set to false.
+ scheduler_wall_time</seealso> is turned off.
</p>
- <p>The list of scheduler information is unsorted and may come in different order
- between calls. The time unit is undefined and may be changed and should only be used
- to calculate relative utilization.
+
+ <p>The list of scheduler information is unsorted and may appear in different order
+ between calls.
</p>
+ <p>Using <c>scheduler_wall_time</c> to calculate scheduler utilization.</p>
+<pre>
+> <input>erlang:system_flag(scheduler_wall_time, true).</input>
+false
+> <input>Ts0 = lists:sort(erlang:statistics(scheduler_wall_time)), ok.</input>
+ok
+</pre>
+ <p>Some time later we will take another snapshot and calculate scheduler-utilization per scheduler.</p>
+<pre>
+> <input>Ts1 = lists:sort(erlang:statistics(scheduler_wall_time)), ok.</input>
+ok
+> <input>lists:map(fun({{I, A0, T0}, {I, A1, T1}}) ->
+ {I, (A1 - A0)/(T1 - T0)} end, lists:zip(Ts0,Ts1)).</input>
+[{1,0.9743474730177548},
+ {2,0.9744843782751444},
+ {3,0.9995902361669045},
+ {4,0.9738012596572161},
+ {5,0.9717956667018103},
+ {6,0.9739235846420741},
+ {7,0.973237033077876},
+ {8,0.9741297293248656}]
+</pre>
+ <p>Using the same snapshots to calculate a total scheduler-utilization.</p>
+<pre>
+> <input>{A, T} = lists:foldl(fun({{_, A0, T0}, {_, A1, T1}}, {Ai,Ti}) ->
+ {Ai + (A1 - A0), Ti + (T1 - T0)} end, {0, 0}, lists:zip(Ts0,Ts1)), A/T.</input>
+0.9769136803764825
+</pre>
+
+ <note>
+ <p><c>scheduler_wall_time</c> is by default disabled. Use <c>erlang:system_flag(scheduler_wall_time, true)</c> to enable it. </p>
+ </note>
</item>
<tag><c>wall_clock</c></tag>
@@ -4957,14 +5021,6 @@ true</pre>
opposed to runtime or CPU time.</p>
</item>
</taglist>
- <p>All times are in milliseconds.</p>
- <pre>
-> <input>statistics(runtime).</input>
-{1690,1620}
-> <input>statistics(reductions).</input>
-{2046,11}
-> <input>statistics(garbage_collection).</input>
-{85,23961,0}</pre>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
diff --git a/erts/test/otp_SUITE.erl b/erts/test/otp_SUITE.erl
index 79cd91221f..b34d9a5422 100644
--- a/erts/test/otp_SUITE.erl
+++ b/erts/test/otp_SUITE.erl
@@ -151,6 +151,9 @@ ssl_crypto_filter(Undef) ->
{{error,bad_name},{error,bad_name}} ->
filter(fun({_,{ssl,_,_}}) -> false;
({_,{crypto,_,_}}) -> false;
+ ({_,{ssh,_,_}}) -> false;
+ ({_,{ssh_connection,_,_}}) -> false;
+ ({_,{ssh_sftp,_,_}}) -> false;
(_) -> true
end, Undef);
{_,_} -> Undef