OK ... I'll get it set up. I've got a little written up on getting started with them, so I'll post that and people can come prepared.
BTW, blktrace is installed by default in openSUSE 11.1; the boot process includes something called "preload" that uses "blktrace" to attempt to shorten boot time. I haven't dug into that use case yet. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:04 PM, David Mandel <[email protected]> wrote: > Ed, > > I haven't used either of these tools, but they look very interesting > now that I'm looking at them. > > In some ways this might work a bit better at Advanced Topics, but I > think it could also work for the general meeting; especially if you > did an install and showed some use examples on the projector so people > without laptops could follow along. > > So I say go for it. > > Let me know if you want to do this and I will announce it. > > Otherwise, we will try to have a discussion about social web sites > like facebook, linkedin, twitter, google sites, and maybe specialized > wikis. Personally, I would prefer > "blktrace" and "seekwatcher". > > David Mandel > > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:15 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:28 AM, David Mandel <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Once again I don't have a speaker for the PLUG meeting. >>> >>> This month's PLUG meeting is March 5, 2009. >>> Does anyone want to speak? >>> Or, does anyone know of someone I should contact? >> >> What I'm doing may be more of an "advanced" topic, but if people want >> to bring Linux laptops, I can show people how to download and use >> "blktrace" and "seekwatcher". >> >> >> -- >> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky >> >> I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed. >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
