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

[Engle, Victor]

I don't know what may be available for linux but something new with
solaris 10 is a tool called dtrace. There is a collection of scripts
also at opensolaris.org bundled in a dtrace toolkit which includes
dtrace scripts to do exactly what you want.

Without a tool like that you are limited to using OS tools like iostat
etc but in many cases you may be able to conclude which process or at
least which apps are responsible if you can associate an app with the
busy disk or if you can run strace on a suspect process.

How many disks does the system have and are they individual disks or
space allocated from a logical volume spanning several disks.

Regards,
Vic


-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Marc Wiatrowski
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 10:16 AM
To: 'Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list'
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] top-like command for monitoring disk I/O

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Porter
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 10:08 AM
> Subject: [TriLUG] top-like command for monitoring disk I/O
> 
> 
> (1) What tools do you guys use to monitor disk I/O?  Or filesystem 
> I/O?
> 

I use iostat, but its not per process.  If you find something like that,
I'd be interested.

-marc

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