Re: monitoring I/O

[Karim Yaghmour <karym@opersys.com>]

I caught this one a little bit late, but you might want to take
a peek at the Linux Trace Toolkit:

http://www.opersys.com/LTT

You'll be able to monitor I/O at will.

Best regards,

Karim

> 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

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                 Karim Yaghmour
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