[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: March PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                            MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                       The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                 will meet
                         7 PM Thursday Mar 5, 2008
                                     at
                         Portland State University
                                   in the
                              Fariborz Maseeh
             College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                       (This is in the basement.)
          The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
       See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

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                                PRESENTATION

                                  Fun with
                        "blktrace" and "seekwatcher"

                                     by

                           M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
                             <zznmeb at gmail.com>


    blktrace is a command that generates traces of the i/o
    traffic on block devices such as hard drives.

    seekwatcher generates graphs from blktrace runs to help
    visualize IO patterns and performance. It can plot multiple
    blktrace runs together, making it easy to compare the differences
    between different benchmark runs.

    Ed will show us how to install and use these cool tools.

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        Agenda:

            7:00 - 7:30  Business
                 We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                 including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                 PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                 etc.

            7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                 See above

            9:00 - ...  Beer
                        Jax Bar And Restaurant is not longer available.
                        We will discuss where to go at the meeting,
                        but it will either be the Lucky Lab or Roots.

                                        David Mandel
                                        Chief Activist
                                        Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                        560 SE Alexander
                                        Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                        (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                        dmandel at pdxLinux.org

        P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
              every month.  They are currently meeting at 6:00 PM
              on the third Wednesday of the month at the Corvallis
              Chamber of Commerce in Corvallis.
              As of May 2008, the Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users
              Group was under reconstruction.  Once this is done
              see http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

        P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
              See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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