Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Jan 2001 03:02:52 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Linux Disk Performance/File IO per process |
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On Mon, Jan 29 2001, Tony.Young@ir.com wrote: > All, > > I work for a company that develops a systems and performance management > product for Unix (as well as PC and TANDEM) called PROGNOSIS. Currently we > support AIX, HP, Solaris, UnixWare, IRIX, and Linux. > > I've hit a bit of a wall trying to expand the data provided by our Linux > solution - I can't seem to find anywhere that provides the metrics needed to > calculate disk busy in the kernel! This is a major piece of information that > any mission critical system administrator needs to successfully monitor > their systems.
The stock kernel doesn't provide either, but at least with Stephen's sard patches you can get system wide I/O metrics.
ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/sct/fs/profiling
-- Jens Axboe
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