[lug] Disk IO monitor

[rm at fabula.de]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:51:20PM -0800, Prafulla Harpanhalli wrote:
> My idea was somewhat similar to that. But
> http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/readme.html is
> something in this direction, IMO. rpm also available.
> If anybody uses it, kindly let me know.

Hmm, that records disk I/O from _within_ an application
which is pretty easy, afaict. I need to monitor disk I/O
from outside (monitoring application). See my nextreply
to Sean's posting.

  ralfd
  
> HTH
> 
> --- Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:33:49PM +0100,
> > rm at fabula.de wrote:
> > >does anyone know a tool to monitor disk IO on a
> > per-
> > >process base for Linux. I googled and freshmeated
> > arround
> > >but couldn't find anything _except_ atop which
> > would be nice
> > >if it wouldn't reuqire a kernel patch that i wasn't
> > able to
> > >locate.
> > 
> > AFAIK, the block I/O stats are only available on a
> > system-wide basis,
> > not per-process.
> > 
> > Part of that is that the disc I/O is fairly removed
> > from the individual
> > processes.  I could be wrong, but I don't see
> > anything in /proc that
> > does it.
> > 
> > Sean
> 
> 
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