[CentOS] Tape drive throughput
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Jun 14 15:17:03 UTC 2006
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.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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