RE: Linux buffer cache monitoring
- From: "Henry Poras" <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Hemant K Chitale'" <hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'oracle-l'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:00:52 -0400
Brandon,
It's been a while since I have used Orion. I forget if it can be used with
Direct I/O. If so, that should bypass the OS cache.
With an EMC backend I was able to do what you are looking for by using
navcli to measure the physical storage I/O. It was a good match with the
Orion numbers.
Henry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allen, Brandon
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 2:46 PM
> To: Hemant K Chitale; oracle-l
> Subject: RE: Linux buffer cache monitoring
>
>
> Thanks Hemant, but that's not exactly what I'm trying to monitor. I'm
> not trying to see how much of the RAM is used/free - rather, I'm
> basically trying to see the Linux buffer cache hit ratio, and the
> components that make up that ratio (logical/buffered reads & physical
> reads).
>
> I'm running Orion (Oracle's I/O capacity testing tool) and it's
> reporting about 5000 IOPS, but that is too good to be true considering
> I'm only striped across 5 disks (in RAID5), I should only be able to
> sustain about 625 IOPS (125 x 5, as long as they're 100%
> reads, which is
> what I'm testing with Orion). According to sar and iostat, I'm only
> doing about 250 IOPS and my understanding is that those are physical
> reads from the OS perspective (I know they might still be
> cached by the
> disk, controller, array cache, etc. in the backend). So, my guess is
> that the other 4500 IOPS are being done in the Linux buffer cache, but
> I'd like to see something to confirm that. I've got 8GB of
> RAM on this
> box and I'm testing Orion with a 64GB file, so I don't see
> how it could
> be satisfying so much of its I/O from cache.
>
> Regards,
> Brandon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hemant K Chitale [mailto:hkchital@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>
> I gave up trying to monitor this !
>
> See
> http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com/2008/06/monitoring-free-me
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