On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Scott Carey <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > DTrace is available now on MacOSX, Solaris 10, OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD. > Linux however is still in the dark ages when it comes to system monitoring, > especially with I/O. While that's true, newer 2.6 kernel versions at least have I/O accounting built in, something which only used to be available through the "atop" accounting kernel patch: $ cat /proc/22785/io rchar: 31928 wchar: 138 syscr: 272 syscw: 4 read_bytes: 0 write_bytes: 0 cancelled_write_bytes: 0 Alexander.
