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Re: Perspective monitoring method for Linux.

From: Mladen Gogala <mgogala.SPAM-ME_at_not-at-verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:36:24 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <pan.2007.07.10.16.31.01@not-at-verizon.net>


On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:30:57 +0000, Steve Howard wrote:

> On Jul 7, 9:59 pm, Mladen Gogala <mgogala.SPAM_ME...._at_verizon.net>
> wrote:

>> I was recently investigating methods for answering the eternal
>> question: who is generating all that @#$% I/O, with particular accent
>> on the Oracle databases. Linux is not particularly good when it comes
>> to answering questions like that. However, there are some
>> possibilities. More information can be found in the following article:
>>
>> http://www.mladen-gogala.com/oratap.pdf
>>
>> If there is interest, I'll expand this into a full fledged language
>> tutorial, with some more scripts.
>>
>> --http://www.mladen-gogala.com

>
> Mladen,
>
> I am curious if this would have any value over standard Oracle
> performance views? in other words, if Oracle is the only application on
> the box, would this show anything about which we don't already know?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Steve

Steve, oracle performance views are not very good at answering the questions like "who is using all that I/O bandwidth right now" or "who is clogging my gigabit ethernet with all that traffic".

-- 
http://www.mladen-gogala.com
Received on Tue Jul 10 2007 - 11:36:24 CDT

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