Runtime Debugging

NOTE All other debug namespace APIs EXCEPT FOR the following APIs are restricted with rpc.unsafe-debug.disable flag:

• VM Tracing APIs, however with limited functionality (only pre-defined tracers are allowed)

• debug_dumpBlock, debug_dumpStateTrie, debug_getBlockRlp, debug_getModifiedAccountsByHash, debug_getModifiedAccountsByNumber, debug_getBadBlocks, debug_getModifiedStorageNodesByNumber

• debug_metrics

debug_freeOSMemory

Returns unused memory to the OS.

Client	Method Invocation
Console	debug.freeOSMemory()
RPC	{"method": "debug_freeOSMemory"}

Parameters

None

Return Value

None

Example

Console

> debug.freeOSMemory()
null

HTTP RPC

$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"debug_freeOSMemory","id":1}' https://public-en-baobab.klaytn.net
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":null}

debug_gcStats

Returns GC statistics.

Client	Method Invocation
Console	debug.gcStats()
RPC	{"method": "debug_gcStats", "params": []}

Parameters

None

Return Value

See https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/debug/#GCStats for information about the fields of the returned object.

Example

Console

> debug.gcStats()
{
  LastGC: "2018-10-08T14:27:34.030659164Z",
  NumGC: 40,
  Pause: [4582691, 2863122, 1578188, 459447, 197699, 1688008, 678298, 117924, 6871625, 298523, 1281135, 616022, 2513029, 265029, 704801, 685752, 383625, 677657, 1135878, 1730593, 603201, 2667691, 1901266, 1035406, 1624233, 1112526, 397637, 158158, 596931, 2675197, 4421722, 745039, 847417, 4423680, 653433, 281915, 605418, 8127664, 138283, 1810200],
  PauseEnd: ["2018-10-08T14:27:34.030659164Z", "2018-10-08T14:25:34.032422737Z", "2018-10-08T14:23:34.015065773Z", "2018-10-08T14:21:34.031893519Z", "2018-10-08T14:19:33.791324489Z", "2018-10-08T14:19:01.028883257Z", "2018-10-08T14:17:01.054270356Z", "2018-10-08T14:15:01.032846304Z", "2018-10-08T14:13:01.07313761Z", "2018-10-08T14:11:01.042653342Z", "2018-10-08T14:09:01.034458873Z", "2018-10-08T14:07:01.022701083Z", "2018-10-08T14:05:01.046456415Z", "2018-10-08T14:03:01.030075376Z", "2018-10-08T14:01:01.027838941Z", "2018-10-08T13:59:01.033363592Z", "2018-10-08T13:57:01.032853252Z", "2018-10-08T13:55:01.06825876Z", "2018-10-08T13:53:01.071426346Z", "2018-10-08T13:51:01.099618831Z", "2018-10-08T13:49:01.016314071Z", "2018-10-08T13:47:01.031721975Z", "2018-10-08T13:45:01.029069094Z", "2018-10-08T13:43:01.026156953Z", "2018-10-08T13:41:01.019240344Z", "2018-10-08T13:39:01.026699743Z", "2018-10-08T13:37:01.02642045Z", "2018-10-08T13:35:00.997556262Z", "2018-10-08T13:33:01.023605742Z", "2018-10-08T13:31:01.025436347Z", "2018-10-08T13:29:01.024808072Z", "2018-10-08T13:27:01.01508169Z", "2018-10-08T13:25:01.023461518Z", "2018-10-08T13:23:01.0144789Z", "2018-10-08T13:21:01.022121597Z", "2018-10-08T13:19:30.748905748Z", "2018-10-08T13:19:29.588457028Z", "2018-10-08T13:19:29.461820065Z", "2018-10-08T13:19:29.436792038Z", "2018-10-08T13:19:29.408990947Z"],
  PauseQuantiles: null,
  PauseTotal: 64156063
}

HTTP RPC

$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"debug_gcStats","params":[],"id":1}' https://public-en-baobab.klaytn.net
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"LastGC":"2018-10-15T00:42:08.2787037Z","NumGC":14,"PauseTotal":292805500,"Pause":[3384700,60164200,259500,354600,62331200,241700,29701500,4868200,8242800,35177700,27621100,12647400,38250100,9560800],"PauseEnd":["2018-10-15T00:42:08.2787037Z","2018-10-15T00:40:19.3302813Z","2018-10-15T00:38:41.2202755Z","2018-10-15T00:36:41.2785669Z","2018-10-15T00:36:18.3196569Z","2018-10-15T00:34:48.2073609Z","2018-10-15T00:33:01.3309817Z","2018-10-15T00:31:28.3465898Z","2018-10-15T00:30:05.4245261Z","2018-10-15T00:28:58.6377593Z","2018-10-15T00:27:55.315809Z","2018-10-15T00:27:45.075085Z","2018-10-15T00:27:44.9164574Z","2018-10-15T00:27:44.8406572Z"],"PauseQuantiles":null}}

debug_memStats

Returns detailed runtime memory statistics.

Client	Method Invocation
Console	debug.memStats()
RPC	{"method": "debug_memStats", "params": []}

Parameters

None

Return Value

See https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/#MemStats for information about the fields of the returned object.

Example

Console

> debug.memStats()
{
  Alloc: 132244280,
  BuckHashSys: 1922010,
  BySize: [{
      Frees: 0,
      Mallocs: 0,
      Size: 0
  }, {
      Frees: 496599,
      Mallocs: 499580,
      Size: 8
  },
  ...
  StackSys: 1195456,
  Sys: 107909880,
  TotalAlloc: 2105944960
}

HTTP RPC

$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"debug_memStats","params":[],"id":1}' https://public-en-baobab.klaytn.net
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"Alloc":265525152,"TotalAlloc":3548997112,"Sys":756177144,"Lookups":2165,"Mallocs":25572268,"Frees":24933943,
...
"Frees":36},{"Size":16384,"Mallocs":123,"Frees":122},{"Size":18432,"Mallocs":11,"Frees":3},{"Size":19072,"Mallocs":2,"Frees":1}]}}

debug_metrics

Retrieves all the known system metrics collected by the node.

Client	Method Invocation
Console	debug.metrics(raw)
RPC	{"method": "debug_metrics", "params": [raw]}

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
raw	bool	raw 데이터 자체로 출력하면 true를 반환하고, 그렇지 않으면 false를 반환합니다.

Return Value

Type	Description
JSON string	노드가 수집한, 구조화된 측정 수치입니다.

Example

Console

> debug.metrics(true)
debug.metrics(true)
{
...
chain: {
  inserts: {
    AvgRate01Min: 0.9999999999999988,
    AvgRate05Min: 0.9999950225324217,
    AvgRate15Min: 0.9963720514881304,
    MeanRate: 0.9936029165254054,
    Overall: 5122,
    Percentiles: {
      20: 6266950,
      5: 5950439.75,
      50: 6682947,
      80: 7255046,
      95: 9365905.249999994
    }
  }
},
...
system: {
  disk: {
    readcount: {
      AvgRate01Min: 56.44435697476854,
      AvgRate05Min: 55.584662531212246,
      AvgRate15Min: 55.34119664885956,
      MeanRate: 47.632311872105376,
      Overall: 245543
    },
    readdata: {
      AvgRate01Min: 12317.25061664709,
      AvgRate05Min: 12166.068673100728,
      AvgRate15Min: 12672.361505927352,
      MeanRate: 15647.98456421136,
      Overall: 80664847
    },
    writecount: {
      AvgRate01Min: 181.87825585990814,
      AvgRate05Min: 179.42841085089034,
      AvgRate15Min: 177.29930723824663,
      MeanRate: 145.6261462083422,
      Overall: 750698
    },
    writedata: {
      AvgRate01Min: 24683.661802447285,
      AvgRate05Min: 24302.28523786675,
      AvgRate15Min: 24142.37073674183,
      MeanRate: 25207.081062276873,
      Overall: 129941675
    }
  }
}

HTTP RPC

$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"debug_metrics","params":[true],"id":1}' https://public-en-baobab.klaytn.net
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"blockchain":{"block":{"tx":{"counter":{"Overall":98307},"rate":{"AvgRate01Min":19.99999999999893,"AvgRate05Min":19.999669059400787,"AvgRate15Min":19.91097896398045,"MeanRate":16.321034565305364,"Overall":98307}}},"head":{"blocknumber":"Unknown metric type"}},"bridgeTxpool":{"refuse":{"Overall":0}}, ...{"AvgRate01Min":0.9999999999999988,"AvgRate05Min":0.9999997215208508,"AvgRate15Min":0.9986124269288207,"MeanRate":0.9946322927570416,"Overall":5991,"Percentiles":{"20":6229668,"5":5986862.3,"50":6585653,"80":6864326.2,"95":7486187.249999999}}}}

debug_setGCPercent

Sets the garbage collection target percentage. It returns the previous setting. A negative value disables GC.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
Percent	integer	설정할 GC 비율입니다.

Return Value

Type	Description
integer	이전에 설정된 GC 비율입니다.

Example Console

> debug.setGCPercent(50)
100
> debug.setGCPercent(70)
50
> debug.setGCPercent(100)
70

HTTP RPC

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"debug_setGCPercent", "params":[100],"id":73}' https://public-en-baobab.klaytn.net

{
  "jsonrpc":"2.0",
  "id":73,
  "result":70
}

debug_stacks

Returns a printed representation of the stacks of all goroutines.

Client	Method Invocation
Console	debug.stacks()
RPC	{"method": "debug_stacks", "params": []}

Parameters

None

Return Value

Type	Description
string	모든 go루틴의 스택 정보입니다.

Example

Console

> debug.stacks()
goroutine 163577 [running]:
/api/debug.(*HandlerT).Stacks(0xc4200a4780, 0x0, 0x0)
    /klaytn/build/_workspace/src/github.com/klaytn/klaytn/api/debug/api.go:173 +0x74
reflect.Value.call(0xc4213a80c0, 0xc42134d1f0, 0x13, 0xf050ec, 0x4, 0xc4233957a0, 0x1, 0x1, 0x474401, 0xc4233956c8, ...)
...

HTTP RPC

$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"debug_stacks","params":[],"id":1}' https://public-en-baobab.klaytn.net
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":"goroutine 76176 [running]:\ngithub.com/klaytn/klaytn/api/debug.(*HandlerT).Stacks(0xc0002ce050, 0x0, 0x0)\n\t/private/tmp/klaytn-20181001-13887-zbyv2z/build/_workspace/src/github.com/klaytn/klaytn/api/debug/api.go:173 +0x74\nreflect.Value.call(0xc01867c660, 0xc000231bd8, 0x13, 0x4b26ca7, 0x4, 0xc008d8b7c0, 0x1, 0x1, 0x30, 0xc0323211d0 ..."}