Monitoring Harddrives
 

Is there a built Linux utility in RedHat E4.0 for monitoring the perfomance of HD's? If not, is there an opensource utility I can install? I want to see how active my HD's are when I start and utilize one particular programs. Thanks in advance for the help.

-AJ

i would look at gkrellm. You can find it on sourceforge. It will moniter harddrives swap space cpu usage etc.

As tamoneya indicated, you can't beat gkrellm

Oh yes, you can: conky

If all you're after is to see the disk throughput, then go with conky, gkrellm, whatever system monitor app. If you're looking to trouble shoot a bottleneck there's iostat (part of sysstat).

Along with monitoring you Hard drives performance you may want to view their settings or monitor their health..

hdparm - will allow you to view information about your drives, and change settings (such as DMA)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/hdparm/

smartmontools - allows you to monitor drive health using the S.M.A.R.T. capabilities built into the Hard Drive.
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/