Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jul 2005 03:56:48 -0400 | From | Sonny Rao <> | Subject | Re: diskstat 0.1: simple tool to study io patterns via relayfs |
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On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 03:07:30AM +0200, bert hubert wrote: > It is with distinct lack of pride that I release version 0.1 of diskstat > 'Geeks in Black Thorn', a tool that allows you to generate the kinds of > graphs as presented in my OLS talk 'On faster application startup times: > Cache stuffing, seek profiling, adaptive preloading'. The lack of pride is > because this release is more a promise of what is to come than how things > should be. > > The presentation, paper, and software can be found on > http://ds9a.nl/diskstat and > http://ds9a.nl/diskstat/diskstat-0.1.tar.gz > > >From the README: > The quality of this code is abysmal, for which I squarely blame the fun > people at OLS who've been keeping me from my code! > (...) > The next version will be based on k/jprobes, and will make better use of > relayfs features. This also means you won't have to patch your kernel > anymore, as long as you compiled with kprobes support.
Hi, I had some trouble compiling it, I figured out that one needs libboost, but then I've also discovered that g++-3.4.4 and g++-4.0.1 don't want to compile it while g++-3.3.5 works. (FYI, all of these were Ubuntu versions)
You might want to document some of this in the README :)
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