dospace

Reports on VOB disk space used for shared derived objects

Applicability


Product	Command type
ClearCase®	cleartool subcommand


Platform
UNIX
Linux
Windows

Synopsis

Report VOB disk space used for shared derived objects:

dospace [ –upd/ate ] [ –sin/ce date-time ] [ –bef/ore date-time ]

[ –ref/erences {0,1,n} ]
[ –top number | –a/ll ] [ –siz/e size ] [ –reg/ion network-region ]

[ –poo/l pool-name ] vob-tag ...
Report disk space in raw format:

dospace [ –upd/ate ] –dum/p [ –reg/ion network-region ] vob-tag...
Generate and cache data on disk space used for local VOBs:

dospace –gen/erate [ –scr/ub days ] [ vob-tag ... ]

Description

The dospace command displays data on VOB disk space used for shared derived objects. The report shows which views refer to shared DOs and shows how much disk space is used by the shared DOs that each view refers to.

You can use this information to identify views that should no longer refer to the DOs. Removing references to the DOs in those views can allow the disk space used by the DOs in the VOB to be reclaimed. When a DO is no longer displayed in any view, the scrubber utility, usually run as a periodically scheduled job, can remove the DO and its associated storage from the VOB.

The dospace command has a number of options that determine the range of derived objects and views it reports. By default, the command displays total disk space used for DOs in the specified VOBs and then lists the top 10 views in order of disk space used by DOs that appear in those views.

By default, dospace uses previously generated, cached data. The –update option generates fresh data and updates the cache before displaying the report.

The –generate option is intended for use by scheduled jobs. By default, the ClearCase scheduler periodically runs dospace with the –generate option to generate and cache data on disk space used by derived objects for all local VOBs. For information about describing and changing scheduled jobs, see the schedule reference page.

Restrictions

Identities

For –generate, you must have one of the following identities:

VOB owner
root (UNIX and Linux)
Member of the ClearCase administrators group (ClearCase on Windows)

Locks

No locks apply.

Mastership

(Replicated VOBs only) No mastership restrictions.

Other

With –update, you must have Change or Full access in the ClearCase scheduler ACL on the host where each VOB storage directory resides. See the schedule reference page.

Options and arguments

Specifying creation times of DOs in the report

Default: No restrictions.
–sin/ce date-time: estricts the report to DOs that were last accessed at or after date-time. For the format of date-time, see the lshistory reference page.
–bef/ore date-time: Restricts the report to DOs that were last accessed before date-time. For the format of date-time, see the lshistory reference page.

Specifying reference counts of DOs in the report

Default: Reports disk space used by DOs with reference counts greater than or equal to 1.
–ref/erences {0,1,n}: Restricts the report to DOs with the specified reference counts. The reference count is the number of views in which a DO is displayed. A value of n reports on DOs that are displayed in two or more views. Each time the DO is winked in to another view, its reference count is incremented. Each time the DO is deleted from a view, its reference count is decremented.

Specifying number of views in the report

Default: Lists top 10 views in space used.
–top number | –a/ll: Restricts the report to the top number of views (default 10) in amount of VOB disk space used by DOs that appear in those views. The –all option reports all views that have references to DOs in the specified VOBs, subject to any restrictions imposed by other options.

Specifying minimum disk space used by each view in the report

Default: No restrictions.
–siz/e size: Restricts the report to those views each of which accounts for at least size kilobytes of VOB disk space used by DOs that are displayed in that view.

Specifying the storage pool

Default: All derived object pools.
–poo/l pool-name: Restricts disk space data in the report to the derived object storage pool whose name is pool-name.

Specifying the VOB

Default: For the –generate option, all local VOBs. Otherwise, no default; you must specify a VOB tag.
vob-tag ...: One or more VOB tags that specify the VOBs to report. Each VOB tag must be valid in the region specified by –region.
–reg/ion network-region: Specifies the network region in which each vob-tag resides. The default is the region of the local host.

Reporting raw data

Default: Formatted report data.
–dum/p: Reports data in a raw form, with no filtering options (such as –since or –size) applied. This form is intended for use by user-created scripts or other programs that do advanced data analysis or formatting.

Displaying and caching up-to-date data

Default: Uses cached data.
–upd/ate: Computes and caches data on DO disk space used at the time the command is issued, instead of using cached data, and then displays a report. The computation can take a significant amount of time.

Generating, caching, and scrubbing data

Default: None.
–gen/erate: Computes and caches data on DO disk space used at the time the command is issued but does not display a report. The VOB storage directories for all specified VOBs must reside on the local host. If no vob-tag argument is specified, the command generates data for all VOBs on the local host. The computation can take a significant amount of time. This option is intended to be used by periodic jobs run by the ClearCase scheduler.
–scr/ub days: Deletes cached records of data on DO disk space used that are older than the specified number of days. A value of –1 deletes all cached records other than the one generated by the current invocation of the command, if any. This option is intended to be used in conjunction with the –generate option by periodic jobs run by the ClearCase scheduler. The default scheduled job specifies a value of –1 for the –scrub option.

Examples

The UNIX system and Linux examples in this section are written for use in csh. If you use another shell, you might need to use different quoting and escaping conventions.

The Windows examples that include wildcards or quoting are written for use in cleartool interactive mode. If you use cleartool single-command mode, you might need to change the wildcards and quoting to make your command interpreter process the command appropriately.

In cleartool single-command mode, cmd-context represents the UNIX system and Linux shells or Windows command interpreter prompt, followed by the cleartool command. In cleartool interactive mode, cmd-context represents the interactive cleartool prompt.

Report the top 10 views in disk space used by DOs each of which are displayed in only one view.
cmd-context dospace –references 1 /projects_bigapp
K Bytes Date.Time VOB 141284 2007-07-25T01:51:53 /projects_bigapp K Bytes View 11026 dave 7722 sue_bl4 7500 cindy_v3.2.1 7224 release 6263 jack_build 5159 terry_v4 4871 v3.2.1.win -region rd_windows 4855 birdseye 4268 v3.2.win -region rd_windows 3903 andrea_40
Report disk space used by DOs last accessed before June 1, 2007, and list all views that account for at least 3 MB each of DO space.
cmd-context dospace –before 01-Jun-2007 –all –size 3000 \bigapp
Using 2007-05-02T01:45:06 ("3 months") for before date.time. 2007-06-01T01:45:06 ("2 months") is next before bucket. K Bytes Date.Time VOB 159562 2007-08-01T01:51:53 \bigapp K Bytes View 28734 v3.1.1_pfm.re 28734 v3.1.1_pfm.bld 19208 v3.1.1.bld 19197 v3.1.1.re 14169 dave 7501 cindy_v3.2.1 7231 release 4866 birdseye 4102 v3.2.win 3987 kim_v3.2 3714 v3.2_pfm.bld 3587 sue_mtypes 3538 proj_v3.nt 3386 [uuid: f532a8f2.afb711d2.a4e2.00:01:72:31:df:c2] machine1:c:\users\jack\jack_v3.3
Generate and cache data on disk space used by DOs in a VOB and then report the top 10 views in disk space used.
cmd-context dospace –update /projects_bigapp
Job is running on remote host ("server1"), waiting for it to finish. .......... Job completed successfully on remote host ("server1"). K Bytes Date.Time VOB 371523 2007-08-01T01:45:06 /projects_bigapp K Bytes View 30428 v3.2.1.bld 30329 v3.1.1_rev.bld 30329 v3.1.1_rev.re 29986 joe_v4.0_merge 29905 v3.2.1.re 29888 v3.2_rev.bld 28152 v3.2_rev.re 26549 winapp_v4.0.bl4.nt -region rd_windows 25670 v3.2.1.bld 25663 v3.2.1.re
Report disk space used by DOs in raw format.
cmd-context dospace –dump \smallapp
start time: 932879789 run time: 14 bucket 0: 86400 1 day bucket 1: 259200 3 days bucket 2: 604800 1 week bucket 3: 1209600 2 weeks bucket 4: 2592000 1 month bucket 5: 5270400 2 months bucket 6: 7862400 3 months bucket 7: 10540800 4 months bucket 8: 13132800 5 months bucket 9: 15811200 6 months bucket 10: 23673600 9 months bucket 11: 31536000 1 year bucket 12: 47347200 1.5 years bucket 13: 63158400 2 years bucket 14: 94694400 3 years bucket 15: 0 more than 3 years pool: ddft 73e0001b.747d11cb.a0ea.08:00:09:25:75:d8 all: 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 92321 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 all: 0 -2 0 0 0 96198 0 0 0 27647 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 view: 59f62178.580511d2.af73.00:01:80:9a:19:fe machine2 C:\views\app2.1_win.vws view: 0 -2 0 0 0 96198 0 0 0 27647 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 view: 8054b303.63ba11d2.bcef.00:01:80:90:ae:6d machine8 D:\users\mary\vws\mary_test.vws view: 0 -2 0 0 0 96198 0 0 0 27647 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 view: e7ca6e7a.990811d2.a1dc.00:01:80:85:f3:f5 machine4 C:\views\jeff\jeff_build.vws view: 0 -2 0 0 0 96198 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 view: ac6db1f1.bd4811d2.b314.00:01:80:a2:f2:c3 machine7 D:\users\sue\views\app_axp.vws view: 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 92321 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0