[TriLUG] top-like command for monitoring disk I/O

[William Sutton]

interesting tidbit about the name source for Gkrellm.  I must say I really 
do like Gkrellm, although I wonder if it (or /proc/cpuinfo) shouldn't 
properly distinguish between real cpus and hyperthreaded cpus.

-- 
William Sutton (whose Gkrellm shows his dual hyperthreaded 2GHz Xeons as 4 
2GHz Xeons)


On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Alan Porter wrote:

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> > does iostat help any?
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> Iostat tells me the same that gkrellm did.
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> Gkrellm, for those who do not know, is a fancy monitor with little 
> scrolling windows for system load, disk I/O, network traffic, memory 
> usage, and whatever plugins you'd like to add.
> 
> The name comes from the movie "Forbidden Planet", where a race of people 
> called the "Krell" had a big machine that controlled everything. This 
> machine had a big room with lots of monitors, and that's what the author 
> had in mind.
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> Alan
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