From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 5 01:21:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F34ED16A422; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 01:21:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9667143D46; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 01:21:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.23] (andersonbox3.centtech.com [192.168.42.23]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j851L27Y072137; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 20:21:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <431B9D8A.2020504@centtech.com> Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:21:14 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050904 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lukas Ertl References: <431B4D6C.6040209@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM viewer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 01:21:06 -0000 Lukas Ertl wrote: > On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Eric Anderson wrote: > >> I've been thinking how nice it would be to have a GEOM viewer - which >> could show in a graphical window reads/writes (nearly real-time) to a >> GEOM provider. > > > gstat in an xterm? :-) I suppose I should have been more clear. :) Instead of just seeing the numbers flash by, what I'd like to see, is a grid of blocks, or block groups, or some such scaling, that shows something like a green square for reads and a red square for writes, with 'blank' being no activity. That way, I can see how the disk device is being accessed in real-time (or close) while I run certain activities/benchmarks/etc. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------