Re: [CentOS] Tape drive throughput

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxx




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