On 2005-01-23, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> "Serge Rielau" <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote in message
> news:35hqkeF4lqkmqU1_at_individual.net...
>> To give the benchmark credit though: One can learn a lot from it as long
>> as one keeps in mind that it's a benchmark.
>
> I believe that I am correct in saying that the initial impetus for both the
> wait interface in Oracle7 and the dtrace facility in Solaris10 was
> unexpectedly low performance with no real diagnostics metrics available. I
> hope the same problems will be encountered by Microsoft for SQL2005 and some
> one with sufficient clout will be able to get instrumentation into linux.
Linux instrumentation of that sort is already under development and
has been for some time. Dtrace is more robust perhaps but it is hardly unique.
It's sputnik with 3 US military ICBM programs hot on it's tail.
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