Hi, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Check out the work of Jens Axboe and Alan Brunelle, specifically the > packages "blktrace" and "fio". Thank you for these pointers, that looks pretty interesting. > There are also some more generic filesystem benchmarks like "iozone" and > "bonnie++". Those are targeted at filesystems, which hide some of the disk's characteristics I'm interested in. But thanks. > BTW ... I am working on my blktrace howto even as I type this. I don't > have an ETA -- that's going to depend on how long it takes me to get the > PostgreSQL benchmarks I'm using to work on my machine. But everything > will be on Github at > > http://github.com/znmeb/linux_perf_viz/tree/master/blktrace-howto > > as it evolves. Cool, looking forward to reading that. Regards Markus Wanner -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance