Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:05:59 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Michal <ml@infosec.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk usage statistics Message-ID: <20090410180559.71f554ec.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <49DFAEA8.6060306@infosec.pl> References: <49DFAEA8.6060306@infosec.pl>
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Michal <ml@infosec.pl> wrote: > > Could you suggest me how can I get my disk usage statistics in terms of > percentage of the possible disk activity (like in gstat) or megabytes > per second (like in iostat), please? > > I need something that gives actual usage statistics, not any averages. > And something that prints what I want and quits (not like gstat in > default mode). It have to be available for unprivileged user and I don't > want to use any temporally files in the process. > > The closest I can get is (last column of): > iostat -c 2 -d ad0 | tail -n 1 > > Problem is that it takes two seconds, which is not acceptable for me > because I want it's output to be printed in status bar beside date and > time. I'm using wmii window manager. > > Any suggestions and hints are very welcome. snmp? There's a command line client for net-snmp, and there are a variety of disk activity MIBs. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
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