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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:46, Nick Piggin wrote: > I have made a simple tool to measure idle and busy time for > block devices. > > I have been wanting something like this for a while, because > the absolute throughput/seek numbers don't always help you > determine whether or not a workload is becoming IO bound. > > It requires a small kernel patch, and I've also attached my > lame userspace program for it. It is kind of like vmstat. > > Oh, and before I go further, does anyone know of any program > or statistic that allows the same functionality? Any comments? Would something like iostat give similar results? http://linux.inet.hr/ Cheers, Con [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | ||||||||||||
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