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Re:Unusual disk latency by seiji on Friday January 02, 2009 @06:47AM (#417273)
It's possible thanks to the magic of dtrace.

In a storage appliance, you wouldn't expect the load to be overwhelmingly CPU bound[1], so performing real time instrumentation isn't a noticeable performance hit: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/DTrace_Topics...

[1]: assuming you aren't using ZFS gzip compression: http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/10/13/zfs-mysqlinnodb-comp...

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