Re: iostat

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 4 Dec 1997 16:53:16 +0100


Hi!

> Is anyone implementing the statistics a tool like "iostat" needs? I just
> made a simplistic version in perl, but all statistics the current kernel
> gives are absolute # of read/writes and # of blocks read/written.
>
> Additionally only the stats for the first 4 disks are kept, but there's
> no way to find out what those 4 disks are (by a program).
>
> SunOS keeps there stats:
[snip]
>
> Perhaps we need a /proc/iostat (and /proc/vmstat .. )

I would like to see such patch!

> If noone is already working on this, I might give it a try (as soon as my
> home PC gets fixed, that is ..)

pAVEL

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