Tag Archives: solaris

plockstat fail!

Posted on 2009/02/06 by

Solaris has this beautiful tool ‘plockstat’ that can report application lock contention and hold events (hold events turn into contention events at parallelism.. ;-) It is just a frontend to a set of dtrace rules, that monitor mutexes and rwlocks. … Continue reading →

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ZFS and MySQL … not yet

Posted on 2008/11/15 by

Today I attended kick-ass ZFS talk (3 hours of incredibly detailed material presented by someone who knows the stuff and knows how to talk) at CEC (Sun internal training event/conference), so now I know way more about ZFS than I … Continue reading →

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