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A thorough introduction to bpftrace

Brendan Gregg

For example, iostat(1), or a monitoring agent, may tell you your average disk latency, but not the distribution of this latency. For smaller environments, it can be of more use helping eliminate latency outliers. Block I/O latency as a histogram. This traces block I/O, and shows latency as a power-of-2 histogram.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

Time of Last Access The time of last access is a caching ​​ algorithm ​​ that enables ​​ cache ​​ entries to be ordered by their ​​ access times. aspx ) and ​​ Sparse Files ​​ ( [link] f ault.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/sparse_files.asp

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