[LBo] Monitoring Disk Performance

[Jay Roos]

Actually, I'm looking for something more like Windows perfmon where I can
see current disk transfer speed.

On 3/10/07, J. Armstrong <jarmstrong at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Jay Roos wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering if there is a way to monitor real life disk performance?
> I'd
> > like to see how fast data is moving during copying or rsyncing. I'm
> looking
> > for something similar to iptraf which is great for monitoring network
> speed.
> >
> > --
> > Jay Roos
>
> I believe what you're looking for is hdparm, which not only lets you view
> and adjust drive parameters but also includes basic benchmarking:
>
> $ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/hdd
>
> /dev/hdd:
> Timing cached reads:   792 MB in  2.00 seconds = 395.25 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads:  224 MB in  3.01 seconds =  74.44 MB/sec
>
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