Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:36:32 +0100 | From | Dominik Kubla <> | Subject | Re: interest in performance instrumentation |
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On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 09:24:49PM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: > iostat is similar to vmstat, but it prints statistics about the I/O > subsystem rather than VM. sct has a skeleton C++ version of iostat, but i > don't think he's worked on it in a while. it comes with a kernel patch > because the data iostat is looking for isn't gathered in the stock Linux > kernel. so, to make tools like sar and iostat work, some effort has to be > focused on deciding what additional kernel instrumentation is required, > and which tools we like best.
iostat has been available for Linux since 1995. Sadly not many distributions have picked it up...
Yours, Dominik Kubla
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