Getting good quality I/O throughput data
This post expands on one I made last year here about sampling frequency (of I/O throughput, but it’s a generic concept). The background to this is my analysis of the performance and capacity of our data warehouse on Oracle 11g.
Before I get too boring, here’s the fun bit:
Pork Pies per Hour (PP/h) Jim wants to enter a championship pork-pie eating competition. He’s timed himself practising and over the course of an hour he eats four pork pies.
