"Prasad дµÀ£º
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> Hi All,
>
> I am doing a study project in which I want to monitor the disk IO load.
> The output should show me the number of reads, writes performed, size
> of the disk and how much it is free etc.

>
> At present I am clue less please provide some clues. Please give me
> some ideas of how to do it.
> Please help.........
>
i hope vmstat or iostat would help.
> Thanks and Regards,
> Prasad.

"Prasad" writes:

> Hi All,
>
> I am doing a study project in which I want to monitor the disk IO load.
> The output should show me the number of reads, writes performed, size
> of the disk and how much it is free etc.
>
> At present I am clue less please provide some clues. Please give me
> some ideas of how to do it.
> Please help.........

As mentionned, you can use iostat or the newer dstat.
Or you can access directly to the raw data in /proc/diskstats

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On 2007-01-22, Prasad wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am doing a study project in which I want to monitor the disk IO load.
> The output should show me the number of reads, writes performed, size
> of the disk and how much it is free etc.
>
> At present I am clue less please provide some clues. Please give me
> some ideas of how to do it.
> Please help.........

add or enable debugging output in the filesystem driver.

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Bye.
Jasen