---
name: "seivots-summary"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "seivot"
version: "1.17-1"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/seivots-summary"
---

# seivots-summary(1)

summarize seivot output files

## NAME

seivots-summary - summarize seivot output files

## SYNOPSIS

**seivots-summary** \[**--config=*FILE***\] \[**--dump-config**\] \[**--dump-memory-profile=*METHOD***\] \[**--dump-setting-names**\] \[**--generate-manpage=*TEMPLATE***\] \[**-h**\] \[**--help**\] \[**--list-config-files**\] \[**--log=*FILE***\] \[**--log-keep=*N***\] \[**--log-level=*LEVEL***\] \[**--log-max=*SIZE***\] \[**--log-mode=*MODE***\] \[**--no-default-configs**\] \[**--output=*FILE***\] \[**--version**\] \[*FILE*\]...

## DESCRIPTION

**seivots-summary** reads some benchmark result files created by [**summain**(1)](/summain/1.md), and produces summaries of them in tabular form, making it easy to compare results from different benchmark runs.

## OPTIONS

- **--config**=*FILE*

  add FILE to config files

- **--dump-config**

  write out the entire current configuration

- **--dump-memory-profile**=*METHOD*

  make memory profiling dumps using METHOD, which is one of: none, simple, meliae, or heapy (default: simple)

- **--dump-setting-names**

  write out all names of settings and quit

- **--generate-manpage**=*TEMPLATE*

  fill in manual page TEMPLATE

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit

- **--list-config-files**

  list all possible config files

- **--log**=*FILE*

  write log entries to FILE (default is to not write log files at all); use "syslog" to log to system log, or "none" to disable logging

- **--log-keep**=*N*

  keep last N logs (10)

- **--log-level**=*LEVEL*

  log at LEVEL, one of debug, info, warning, error, critical, fatal (default: debug)

- **--log-max**=*SIZE*

  rotate logs larger than SIZE, zero for never (default: 0)

- **--log-mode**=*MODE*

  set permissions of new log files to MODE (octal; default 0600)

- **--no-default-configs**

  clear list of configuration files to read

- **--output**=*FILE*

  write output to FILE, instead of standard output

- **--version**

  show program's version number and exit

## EXAMPLE

To summarize all benchmark files:

-

  seivots-summary $HOME/obnam/benchmarks/\*/\*.seivot \| less -S

## SEE ALSO

[**seivot**(1)](/seivot/1.md), [**obnam**(1)](/obnam/1.md).