One must know the disk seek patterns of an application when optimizing the storage layer for any application. So when I was working on the performance analysis of ES, one of the first thing was to determine its disk seek patterns. I used blktrace and seekwatcher for that purpose. Blktrace is a utility that traces block io request issued to a given block device. To quote from the blktrace manual.

Thursday, October 30, 2008. It took place at the University of Alberta and there were well over 150 people there! Big turn out. One of the speakers with a great application was electionbuddy. Another presentation was from a small company here in Edmonton, gskinner. One of the worst applications I have seen so far is TheHistoryBooks.

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Fortune Favours the BOLD! A rare conversation between Ramkrishna Paramahansa and Swami Vivekananda. But productivity gets you free. Why has life become complicated now? Stop analyzing life. Why are we then constantly unhappy? Worrying has become your habit. Why do good people always suffer? With that experience their life becomes better, not bitter.