Re: [PLUG] I/O monitoring on Linux? At all?

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:31:31PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Under Solaris, I've got iostat(1M), which can be told to repeat at
> a granularity of 1 second or lower any number of times and, with
> the -xcn flags, gives me output like this on a Sun E450:

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> On NetBSD, I've got iostat(8), which has similar features and with
> the -x option gives me output like this on my crappy IA32
> workstation:

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> Please tell me it ain't so! How can Linux hope to compete with a
> real Unix if you can't do performance monitoring on something as key
> as I/O? Who in their right mind would attach a RAID to a system so
> crippled?
> 
> I *must* be missing something...

Debian's sysstat package comes with an iostat.

Walt

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