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A thorough introduction to bpftrace

Brendan Gregg

For example, iostat(1), or a monitoring agent, may tell you your average disk latency, but not the distribution of this latency. For smaller environments, it can be of more use helping eliminate latency outliers. bpftrace uses BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter), an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

DBCC Page Auditing DBCC page auditing is the process of executing common DBCC consistency checks as pages are read from disk. The 832 message indicates a serious process stability problem, such as a scribbler, ​​ that could ​​ lead to data corruption and ​​ ​​ loss.

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