I wanted to avoid any filesystem specifc behavior from the output.
That will be very hard. You'd need a DTrace script that breaks-out
the time spent in the different layers down the IO stack, and substract
the time spent in the filesystem layers from the total.
The problem remains the same
Thanks Jim.
> Threads are put to sleep when they issue blocking
> system calls.
> I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "only know
> synchronous
> app wait from an app perspective", but the
> threads will be in the
> sleep state (SLP) after issuing the read/write until
> the data is
> availabl