On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Eran Tromer wrote:

> How do I tell remotely how heavy is the disk activity on a Linux box?

man vmstat

> My primary goal is to determine whether disk usage is a performance
> bottleneck in a web server (Apache+PHP+MySQL). In case the solution is
> driver-specific (low-level counters?), I'm using RAID1 on SCSI, kernel
> 2.2.

then vmstat's output won't help you much - you'll need to look for some
'rules of thumb' that'll help you analyze its output.

--
guy

"For world domination - press 1,
 or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy


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