Opinions on interesting VFS calls

[Eric Anderson]

Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> wrote:
>  > I'm still tinkering on a vfsstats tool in my spare time, and I've got a 
>  > few questions for those interested:
>  > 
>  > 1. What are the top ten most interesting vfs calls for statistics purposes?
> 
> I'm not sure if this is an answer to your question, but I
> would love to be able to get latency statistics from the
> I/O system.  For example the average latency for reading,
> especially via NFS, but also local disks might be useful.
> That is, min/max/average how long processes have to wait
> for the NFS server (or for a local disk), in milliseconds
> or whatever.  As far as I know, there is currently no way
> to get such statistics.


Not an answer at all, but a great idea no less!  Thanks!  I'll think 
about that, and how I might toss that in too.


Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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