"Decibel!" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:
> Also, has anyone looked into adding a class of system calls that would
> actually tell us if the kernel issued physical IO? I find it hard to believe
> that other RDBMSes wouldn't like to have that info...
Yeah, I think that's called "DTrace"
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