On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Phil Pennock <lopsa-t...@spodhuis.org> wrote: > On 2011-04-21 at 10:03 -0700, Steven Kurylo wrote: >> However I've never been happy with troubleshooting IO issues. Often I >> end feelings its IO, but can't point my finger at the specific number. >> It seems every six months I'm searching the web for more tips and >> tools to try. > > I *really* wish that other OSes would copy FreeBSD's: > top -mio > > to get I/O stats, instead of CPU/memory ones. The ability to get all > the sorted goodness of top, sorted on columns of your choosing, but > ordering by reads/writes/faults, etc is really handy for finding > culprits.
I'm using dstat more and more, for example: dstat --disk-util --top-io -r -c -y And as Nick says iotop. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
