I use iostat -x because I need extended stats. I'm interested in measuring await and svctm provided by iostat -x to monitor the latency on the disk device I'm monitoring.
-Paul Bernard Li wrote: > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
