-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Smith wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Gregory Stark wrote: > >> Also, it helps to run a "vmstat 1" in another window and watch the bi >> and bo >> columns. > > Recently on Linux systems I've been using dstat ( > http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/ ) for live monitoring in this > sort of situation. Once you get the command line parameters right, you > can get data for each of the major disks on your system that keep the > columns human readable (like switching from KB/s to MB/s as appropriate) > as activity goes up and down combined with the standard vmstat data. > > I still use vmstat/iostat if I want to archive or parse the data, but if > I'm watching it I always use dstat now. Thanks for the tip Greg... I hadn't heard of dstat. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > -- > * Greg Smith gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend > - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ UNIQUE NOT NULL Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG5zbRATb/zqfZUUQRAnz4AJwM1bGsVPdUZWy6ldqEq9l8SqRpJACcCfUc Joc8dLj12hISB5mQO6Tn+a8= =E5D2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
