On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Jussi Hirvi <listmember@greenspot.fi> wrote:
 > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 also introduces diskdevstat for monitoring
 > disk operations and netdevstat for monitoring network operations.

How could I monitor disk operations under CentOS 5?

The quote is from RHEL 6 release notes
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.0_Release_Notes/powermanagement.html

There are more details about diskdevstat and netdevstat here: http://goo.gl/pA8Yt

Since they depend on SystemTap, check this: http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/SystemTapOnCentOS

I couldn't find the tuned-utils package for CentOS 5.x but, if there aren't huge changes to SystemTap in CentOS 6.x, you could try to download the scripts from their repository and try them: https://fedorahosted.org/tuned/


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Giovanni Tirloni