Tape drive throughput
- From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell (at) gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:17:03 -0500
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 09:10 -0600, Joshua Gimer wrote:
> You can use iostat which is part of the sysstat package.
>
> yum install sysstat
>
> You can set up an interval and a count and have it redirected to a
> file for later reference
>
> iostat 10 20 >> filename
But tapes are character devices and iostat only shows block
devices. If there isn't much else happening the read values
on the source drive might be close enough, though.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell (at) gmail.com
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