-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/07 12:16, Erik Jones wrote: > > On Mar 12, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Harald Armin Massa wrote: > >> Erik, >> >> for solaris I think dtrace can be of help: >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/dtrace/ >> >> PostgreSQL 8.2 introduced dtrace-ability. >> >> From what I read it is specifically created to do this kind of >> measurement. > > Hmm... That would be a particulary heavy weight solution to what I was > hoping for. Basically, I'm looking to poll the db or "something" to get > either the total number of block or page writes done by the db either > ever or since my last reading. That way I can graph disk writes over > time and compare to the graphs I've already got for transactions > committed, transactios rolled back, disk blocks read from disk, and disk > blocks found in cache. Like a system montitor that tracks reads, writes, transactions, etc? > > erik jones <erik@xxxxxxxxxx> > sofware developer > 615-296-0838 > emma(r) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF9ZiyS9HxQb37XmcRAiNKAKCxG7RJUEQTpyU6N6bqlllOcvUJ6wCfZh+8 7s3LprWsR2IEB3n+FwyLy58= =cPIV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----