Samba and Application Response Measurement (ARM 4.0)

[James Peach]

On 16/03/2008, Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:20:56PM +0100, Sven Kubiak wrote:
>  > Well, i found the profile.c, profiles.c and status_profile.c. But i don't
>  > know if these are the right files to begin with.
>  >
>  > As with the callers of (sys_)read, could you name the files to start with.
>  > It's difficult to figure out how and where calls are made.
>
>
> The theory is that these calls are made upon entry and exit
>  of an SMB request. It's not to made to monitor posix-level
>  syscalls. To monitor those it would probably be best to
>  create a VFS module that wraps all calls, similar to
>  vfs_full_audit.

or like the xmetrics module in this branch (which does this per-client
and per-share):

svn://svn.samba.org/samba/branches/tmp/jpeach-xmetrics

although IIRC, the profile stuff exports metrics for system calls as
well as protocol operations

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