[TriLUG] top-like command for monitoring disk I/O

[Alan Porter]

> does iostat help any?
>   

Iostat tells me the same that gkrellm did.

Gkrellm, for those who do not know, is a fancy monitor with little 
scrolling windows for system load, disk I/O, network traffic, memory 
usage, and whatever plugins you'd like to add.

The name comes from the movie "Forbidden Planet", where a race of people 
called the "Krell" had a big machine that controlled everything. This 
machine had a big room with lots of monitors, and that's what the author 
had in mind.


Alan