Is there anything like top, but for filesystem activity? Google hasn't turned up anything... -- Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel@decibel.org Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070828/3d3af716/attachment.pgp
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 02:47:08PM -0500, Decibel! wrote:> Is there anything like top, but for filesystem activity? Google hasn't > turned up anything...I think what you're looking for is iostat(8). Keep in mind that this doesn't break things down "per process" however. fstat(1) would work for that. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
---- Original Message ----- From: "Decibel!" <decibel@decibel.org> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:47 PM Subject: top for IO stats Is there anything like top, but for filesystem activity? Google hasn't turned up anything... -- How about -- top -mio man top
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:26:00PM +0200, Christopher Arnold wrote:> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Decibel! wrote: > > >Is there anything like top, but for filesystem activity? Google hasn't > >turned up anything... > > > Maybe you are looking for "gstat"?Actually, top -mio is exactly what I was looking for. Never knew top could do that... -- Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel@decibel.org Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070828/8c7bc589/attachment.pgp
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Decibel! wrote:> Is there anything like top, but for filesystem activity? Google hasn't > turned up anything... >Maybe you are looking for "gstat"? /Chris -- http://www.arnold.se/
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:47:08 -0500 Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> wrote:> Is there anything like top, but for filesystem activity? Google hasn't > turned up anything...gstat ?
Decibel! wrote:> Is there anything like top, but for filesystem activity? Google hasn't > turned up anything... >Usually I use top -m io, but I like also using systat -iostat 2, or systat -vmstat 2, they both show more of a snapshot of the activity on each disk -Scott Oertel