Re: Identifying the nature of blocking I/O - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Identifying the nature of blocking I/O
Date
Msg-id 20080825021609.GF4506@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Identifying the nature of blocking I/O  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-performance
Tom Lane wrote:
> "Scott Carey" <scott@richrelevance.com> writes:
> > DTrace is available now on MacOSX, Solaris 10, OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD.
> > Linux however is still in the dark ages when it comes to system monitoring,
> > especially with I/O.
>
> Oh, after poking around a bit, I should note that some of my Red Hat
> compatriots think that "systemtap" is the long-term Linux answer here.
> I know zip about it myself, but it's something to read up on if you are
> looking for better performance monitoring on Linux.

FWIW there are a number of tracing options on Linux, none of which is
said to be yet at the level of DTrace.  See here for an article on the
topic: http://lwn.net/Articles/291091/

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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