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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] tuning aids
Date: Tue,  8 Apr 2003 23:57:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <98bfc3039b372f44ee7cc8e4ed402bf9@caldo.demon.co.uk> (raw)

it's easy to forget iostats(4), tprof and prof -d (see prof(1)).

i was working on some imported software that was claimed
to be lean, clean and mean but in simple tests
had amazingly appalling performance.
thanks to the above i quickly found and fixed enough that
it works sensibly.  iostats was particularly useful.
it was reading 800 Mbytes by pointlessly rereading
800 kbytes, and had a bizarre buffer bounds test when
writing that negated the buffering.




             reply	other threads:[~2003-04-08 22:57 UTC|newest]

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2003-04-08 22:57 Charles Forsyth [this message]
2003-04-08 23:26 ` andrey mirtchovski

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