Re: [RFC] blkstat

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:46, Nick Piggin wrote:
> I have made a simple tool to measure idle and busy time for
> block devices.
>
> I have been wanting something like this for a while, because
> the absolute throughput/seek numbers don't always help you
> determine whether or not a workload is becoming IO bound.
>
> It requires a small kernel patch, and I've also attached my
> lame userspace program for it. It is kind of like vmstat.
>
> Oh, and before I go further, does anyone know of any program
> or statistic that allows the same functionality? Any comments?

Would something like iostat give similar results?

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Cheers,
Con

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