Shouting in the Datacenter

Why it was recommended

this entertaining YouTube video from 2009, in which someone demonstrates the effect by literally shouting at a rack of servers

Recommendationteraflop · Original2017-12

What it covers

A two-minute 2008 clip from Sun's Fishworks team in which Brendan Gregg uses DTrace to show disk latency spiking while he shouts at a rack of drives. Bryan Cantrill narrates. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel

Bryan Cantrill

Length

2 min

Year

2008

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