how to monitor harddisk load ?

jiawj · 02-24-2005, 03:22 AM

I use command top

but I find iowait item but without export result,
always 0.0%

Quote:

16:48:59 up 6:21, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
57 processes: 55 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 99.8%
Mem: 511936k av, 107928k used, 404008k free, 0k shrd, 17000k buff
72488k active, 8564k inactive
Swap: 102392k av, 0k used, 102392k free 40548k cached

so, how to do I can monitor harddisk load
I find the line from /proc/stat

Quote:

disk_io: (8,0)

15237,4268,97430,10969,210150) (8,1)

805,646,7395,159,15519)

and, where can find mrtg project script for disk-io ?
very thanks

Golradir · 02-24-2005, 07:10 AM

Why don't you try gkrellm?

jiawj · 02-24-2005, 10:18 AM

thanks,this utility very powerful!!

but ....

I wanna find a utility run with command line and don't complex

Can anyone recommend a good one ?

thanks again