Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:44:27 +0000 | From | Francois Desarmenien <> | Subject | Re: Disk statistics tool for Linux ? |
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"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
> Hi, > > On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:20:35 +0000, Francois Desarmenien > <desar@club-internet.fr> said: > > > In a recent threat on linux-kernel, I read something like there wasn't > > anything like sar or vmstat tools. > > > While should be doable using the /proc filesystem, I'm wondering about disk > > activity statistics: > > If you'd been reading l-k, you would have seen several threads refering > to an existing tool to profile disk activity in the manner of sar! >
I am now, and I find it really amazing, because of those tons of informations !
> > > Using big database like Oracle requires a very fine tuning of disk > > activity, like CPU wait I/O, disk percent I/O busy, I/O thoughtput on > > so on > > ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/sard-0.3.tar.gz >
Thanks for the pointer, I'll try it soon.
> > provides disk % busy, average queue, CPU wait times, throughput and > number of IOs per second read/write for each disk and each partition. > I hope to fold these into the main kernel at some point. >
Yes, I think it shoud be very nice. Maybe a "Performance-Tuning-HOWTO" could be a nice idea, too (I know, I know, doc patches welcome :-)
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François Désarménien
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