top to see disk utilization

[Ragni Singh]

Hi all, is it pssible to configure TOP command to display disk utilization. Any help is greatly appreciated and points will be assigned.

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

top does not have this capability to the best of my knowledge. OTOH, df does do quite nicely in this area

[Ragni Singh]

Thanks, now what about SAR. Does sar run on Linux and does this have the capability to show disk utilization. I am just pressed to find something that does all this besides glance. We are trying to stay away from glance since its costing us a whole lot of money which we don't have here. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Mark Grant · Accepted solution]

sar does indeed run on Linux and shows you more disk statistics than you can shake a stick at.

Download, configure and enjoy!

[Ragni Singh]

where do you download SAR from?

[Steven E. Protter]

sar comes with almost all Linux distributions, Unix as well.

find / -name sar

Try this sar script, which can be modified to collect performance data on Linux. Attached.

SEP

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Hi,

sar is part of sysstat, see

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/

for details.

Greetings, Martin