Comments on: iotop for better disk monitoring http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/iotop-for-better-disk-monitoring/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/iotop-for-better-disk-monitoring/#comment-43549 Sun, 30 May 2010 10:25:56 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/iotop-for-better-disk-monitoring/#comment-43549 I am afraid I’m out of my depth when it comes to clustered or shared file systems. Perhaps someone else can offer a suggestion. … :(

]]> By: morgan http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/iotop-for-better-disk-monitoring/#comment-43548 Sun, 30 May 2010 10:03:48 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/iotop-for-better-disk-monitoring/#comment-43548 Iotop is another reason not to use Centos.

The latest version will not work with Centos 5.x as the kernel is too old and is the version of python (yet another useful tool you will miss if you choose centos.)

]]> By: road http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/iotop-for-better-disk-monitoring/#comment-43544 Sat, 29 May 2010 16:24:46 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/iotop-for-better-disk-monitoring/#comment-43544 question: do you know of any way to monitor disk I/O on a cluster that uses a shared file-system? these tools (top, vmstat) appear to only show you disk I/O by the computer you’re currently using… but if that filesystem is shared by a number (or hundreds) of other computers, do you know a good way to watch I/O in real-time?

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