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Thorsten Staerk
Asked: 2013-12-21 00:40:36 +0800 CST

how to do I/O sniffing

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For sizing purposes I need to understand what requirements an application has to the I/O subsystem. I would love to do what I call I/O sniffing and obtain a list of events from the block layer like this:

initiator XYZ requests block 4711 from device 0815
initiator BLA writes block 1234 to device 9876

I have been told blktrace was what I am looking for but I cannot get this info from that tool.

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1 Answers

  1. Seems like a job for SystemTap, the SystemTap beginners guide by Red Hat has some disk and IO sample scripts to get you started as does sourceware.org.

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