Benchmarking

Published results

• http://askmonty.org/wiki/DBT3_benchmark_results_MyISAM
• Benchmark Results

Systemtap

• http://www.domaigne.com/blog/random/getting-debug-kernel-on-ubuntu/ -- A script to get kernel debug symbols (worked on Kubuntu 11.10)
• Useful scripts: http://sourceware.org/systemtap/examples/keyword-index.html#DISK
• Enlightening discussion on why user-level tracing is not in Ubuntu, etc: http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/1Juq9K6L000FXiiwkzB7 Summary: the kernel part is not in vanilla kernel (although that may change in 5.3). Fedora is THE distribution for systemtap.