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Ragni Singh
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top to see disk utilization

Hi all, is it pssible to configure TOP command to display disk utilization. Any help is greatly appreciated and points will be assigned.
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Martin P.J. Zinser
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Re: top to see disk utilization

top does not have this capability to the best of my knowledge. OTOH, df does do quite nicely in this area
Ragni Singh
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Re: top to see disk utilization

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
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Re: top to see disk utilization

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

Download, configure and enjoy!
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Ragni Singh
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Re: top to see disk utilization

where do you download SAR from?
Steven E. Protter
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Re: top to see disk utilization

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.

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Martin P.J. Zinser
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Re: top to see disk utilization

Hi,

sar is part of sysstat, see

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

for details.

Greetings, Martin