Hi guys: Thanks for the responses.
Both Paul and John mentioned iostat with -x -- if I am only interested in the KB/s read/write stats, is there a difference between iostat -k and iostat -x? Perhaps one is faster than the other? Cheers, Bernard On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:00 PM, john allspaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bernard: > > We usually just take bits from "iostat -x 4 2", yes. :) > -j > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Ganglia <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 3:07:37 PM > > Subject: [Ganglia-general] Block device I/O bandwidth > > > > Hi guys: > > > > I am curious as to what folks usually do to measure block device I/O > > bandwidth (MB/s) with their Ganglia installation. Talking > > specifically about disk I/O, do you guys usually just use the output > > of iostat -k or something like that? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bernard > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Ganglia-general mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general

