Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 07:53:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 07:53:52 -0400 Received: from mx1-corp.corp.nl.home.com ([212.120.66.113]:1675 "EHLO mx1-corp.corp.nl.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 07:53:51 -0400 From: Thomas Tonino To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3CC7EDC0.9080509@corp.home.nl> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:51:28 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: sard/iostat disk I/O statistics/accounting for 2.5.8-pre3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Zlatko Calusic wrote: > All this gives Linux a much needed functionality - extensive > measurements and reporting of disk device performance/bottlenecks. > No server should be without it. See below for a real life story. > > The patch, iostat utility and man page can be found at > > This is very useful functionality. I'm currently looking at a similar patch for the 2.4 series, taken from http://www.kernel.at/pub/linux/kernel/people/hch/patches/v2.4/2.4.18-pre4/ which seems to work fine so far (with very limited testing). This patch gives information that is really needed to maintain systems that actually use their disks, such as mail, database and news servers. May I vote for inclusion in the mainline kernel, both 2.4 and 2.5? Again, it is an important part of server maintainability. Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/