Re: [perf-discuss] capacity planning tools - status

2009-01-21 Thread David Collier-Brown
[Delayed response, sorry!] Stefan Parvu wrote:Hi David, >> The classic tools for doing capacity planning measure > operation/transaction rate and time taken, rather > > than resource usage. >> >> Once you've *done* the planning, then you correlate >> that with the amount of resources you used a

[perf-discuss] ptime(1) improvements

2009-01-21 Thread Chad Mynhier
If anyone's interested, a few improvements to ptime(1) went back into build 104. The default resolution for ptime(1) is now nanoseconds, not milliseconds. ptime(1) now gives you microstate accounting with the -m flag. ptime(1) can give you a snapshot of stats for a running process with the -p fl

Re: [perf-discuss] capacity planning tools - status

2009-01-21 Thread Stefan Parvu
> http://www.teamquest.com/resources/webinars/display/30/index.htm > Without the www, it goes nowhere (;-)) Many thanks. Interesting. stefan ___ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [perf-discuss] capacity planning tools - status

2009-01-21 Thread David S. Collier-Brown
Whoops, the TeamQuest webinar link should be http://www.teamquest.com/resources/webinars/display/30/index.htm Without the www, it goes nowhere (;-)) --dave -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensola

Re: [perf-discuss] capacity planning tools - status

2009-01-21 Thread Stefan Parvu
> corestat isn't integrated into Solaris because it > hasn't been productized and has some issues (eg. must be > run as root, prevents anyone else from using the CPU > performance counters while it is running, only works for > Niagara processors, may not be sufficient for doing capacity > planning