ethcheckload(8)

✨ ethcheckload ✨

okay bestie, so this is ethcheckload — it's living in the EFSFFCLIRG manual (section 8, the sysadmin-y one, iykyk) and its whole ~thing~ is returning load information on hosts in the fabric 💖

basically it goes around asking your hosts how busy they are and then tells you who's thriving and who's struggling 😭 iconic behaviour tbh

📖 Syntax

ethcheckload [-f  hostfile] [-h 'hosts'] [-r] [-a|-n numprocs]
[-d uploaddir] [-H]

🎀 Options

• --help — spills the full help text for you. the whole tea ☕
• -f hostfile — tells it which file has the hosts you wanna check. the default is /etc/eth-tools/hosts 💅
• -h hosts — just hands it the list of hosts to check directly, no file needed.
• -r — flips the output so you see the least busy hosts instead. by default it shows you the busiest ones 🔥
• -n numprocs — how many top hosts you want to see. default is 10.
• -a — shows all the hosts. default is 10.
• -d upload_dir — the target directory to upload loadavg into. default is uploads.
• -H — suppresses the headers, for when you're scripting and parsing this stuff. no vibes, just data 🫶

🌸 Examples

ethcheckload

ethcheckload -h 'arwen elrond'

HOSTS='arwen elrond' ethcheckload

🌈 Environment Variables

the following environment variables are also used by this command:

• HOSTS — list of hosts, used if the -h option isn't supplied.
• HOSTS_FILE — file containing the list of hosts, used when both -f and -h are absent.
• UPLOADS_DIR — directory to upload loadavg, used when -d is absent.
• FF_MAX_PARALLEL — maximum concurrent operations. (yes bestie, it can do many at once, main character energy 🧚)

lowkey just run it with no args and let it cook 💜

and that's the whole page, fr fr 🍓 this one's Copyright(C) 2020-2024 by Intel Corporation ✨ so shoutout to them for making it, and the page itself is dated 2020-2024 — slay, no cap, go check your hosts' vibes now 👑💖