Re: monitoring I/O

[Nicholas Dronen]

Check out the disk_io field in /proc/stat.

On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:52:36AM +1100, Michael McLeod wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am hoping someone can give me a little information or point me in the
> right direction.  I would like to write an application that monitors I/O
> on a linux machine, but I need some help in determining where to get the
> information I'm looking for.  What I would like to do is 'hook' into the
> kernel and record information such as volume name, type of request (read
> or write), the amount of data being read or written, how long each
> transaction takes....  
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, or if there is something like
> this already available that would be even better.  Thanx
> 
> Mike