Statistics (for server)
David Collier-Brown
davecb at canada.sun.com
Thu Feb 17 15:02:04 GMT 2000
[Oops! I was going through my mailbox, and found I'd forgotten to
reply to this]
> > Peter Polkinghorne wrote:
> OK I think I understand what you suggest for measuring - though presumably
> 4) is hard to do - you just submit a request and in due course it is done
> - though may be in case of writes asynchronously?
> Do you not to rely on OS figures for disks?
Not directly: on the application side, wrapping the
write(2) in calls to a timer will suffice.
> What I was interested in was some overall statistics to give an idea of how
> hard a server was working and for whom.
Ah: different question.
I haven't thought about a "single statistic" for Samba:
they usually require a better brain than I have (;-))
Stealing an idea from the Unix definition of "load", we
might report the number of SMBDs waiting for disk i/o
and the number either wating for CPU or running. That
would be a "figure of merit" that might well match the
intuitive definition of "how hard is samba working"....
Cool idea...
--dave
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