7 tools for analyzing performance in Linux with bcc/BPF (opensource.com)
Traditional analysis of filesystem performance focuses on block I/O statistics—what you commonly see printed by the iostat(1) tool and plotted by many performance-monitoring GUIs. Those statistics show how the disks are performing, but not really the filesystem. Often you care more about the filesystem's performance than the disks, since it's the filesystem that applications make requests to and wait for. And the performance of filesystems can be quite different from that of disks! Filesystems may serve reads entirely from memory cache and also populate that cache via a read-ahead algorithm and for write-back caching. xfsslower shows filesystem performance—what the applications directly experience."
Posted Nov 29, 2017 20:03 UTC (Wed)
by darwish (guest, #102479)
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A question then, will this replace systemtap in the future? I don’t know, but systemtap always felt like a Redhat-internal response to the the threat of dtrace ..
Systemtap?