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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Tony.Young@ir.com
Cc: slug@slug.org.au, csa@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Disk Performance/File IO per process
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 03:02:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010129030252.I12772@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C0D2F5944500D411AD8A00104B31930E108096@ir_nt_server2>
In-Reply-To: <C0D2F5944500D411AD8A00104B31930E108096@ir_nt_server2>; from Tony.Young@ir.com on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:54:00PM +1100

On Mon, Jan 29 2001, Tony.Young@ir.com wrote:
> All,
> 
> I work for a company that develops a systems and performance management
> product for Unix (as well as PC and TANDEM) called PROGNOSIS. Currently we
> support AIX, HP, Solaris, UnixWare, IRIX, and Linux.
> 
> I've hit a bit of a wall trying to expand the data provided by our Linux
> solution - I can't seem to find anywhere that provides the metrics needed to
> calculate disk busy in the kernel! This is a major piece of information that
> any mission critical system administrator needs to successfully monitor
> their systems.

The stock kernel doesn't provide either, but at least with Stephen's
sard patches you can get system wide I/O metrics.

ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/sct/fs/profiling

-- 
Jens Axboe

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-29  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-29  1:54 Linux Disk Performance/File IO per process Tony.Young
2001-01-29  2:02 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-01-29  2:04 ` Chris Evans
2001-01-29 15:39   ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2001-01-29 18:27     ` Mike Galbraith
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-29  2:50 Tony.Young
2001-01-29 13:26 ` Chris Evans
2001-01-29 22:41   ` List User
2001-01-30  2:18     ` James Sutherland
2001-01-30  2:49       ` List User

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