DAMO(1)

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version 3.3.6 · 5 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💖 DAMO(1) — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

bestie. you found the damo page. buckle up.

✨ NAME ✨

damo — Data Access Monitoring Operator 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

damo [-h] <command> ...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so. damo is a user space tool for DAMON, which is a data access monitoring subsystem for the Linux kernel 🐧.

with it you can:

  • monitor the data access patterns of your system or your workloads 👀
  • make data access-aware memory management optimizations 💅

basically: control DAMON and show its results. that's the whole vibe. that's the point. fr fr.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -h, --help — show this help message and exit 🫶 (the classic. the icon. we love her.)

✨ COMMANDS ✨

she has a LOT of subcommands and every single one of them is here, no skips, no cuts 💖

  • start — start DAMON with given parameters 🚀
  • tune — update input parameters of ongoing DAMON 🎛️
  • stop — stop running DAMON 🛑
  • record — record data accesses and additional information 📝
  • report — visualize damo-generated data 🎨
  • replay — replay the recorded data accesses 🔁
  • module — control DAMON kernel modules 🧩
  • reclaim — control DAMON_RECLAIM 🧹
  • lru_sort — control DAMON_LRU_SORT 🗂️
  • setup_cli_completion — setup command line auto-completion ⌨️ (do it once, thank yourself forever)
  • help — provide help for given topics 🙋‍♀️
  • args — generate complex arguments for other commands 🛠️
  • version — print the version number 🔢
  • schemes — apply operation schemes 🧠
  • monitor — repeat the recording and the reporting of data accesses 🔄
  • features — list supported DAMON features in the kernel ⭐
  • validate — validate a given record result file ✅
  • adjust — adjust the record results with filters and different monitoring attributes 🔧
  • convert_record_format — convert DAMON result record file's format 🔀
  • diagnose — generate a report on if DAMON is malfunctioning 🩺
ngl, if you're new here: setup_cli_completion first, then help, then features to see what your kernel is even willing to do. main character energy only 💅

this has been damo, version 3.3.6, from August 2026, filed under User Commands, and yeah — that's DAMO(1) bestie, go monitor something gorgeous 🦋🎀✨

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