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    If that's what you're looking for, there are several (free) programs
    you could run from the command line in a separate window/screen
    while your program is running that give you all you're asking
    about.  Sort of an equivalent to Winblows "System Explorer."  What
    flavor or Linux are you using? <br>
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    David M.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Devin Boyer wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Try something like "strace -T myapp" or "strace -T
        -c myapp"; they'll show the system calls being made and the
        amount of time spent in each.  It's slightly different
        information than iostat, but it may be useful in figuring out
        what and where your program is performing io access.</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:37 PM,
          Stephan Henning <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                  <div>No, iostat will normally just dump to the
                    terminal window, but I'd like to pipe it's output to
                    a file so I can parse it later. <br>
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                  My end goal here is to be able to generate a log of
                  iostat output while I run this program, I'm trying to
                  determine exactly how hard this program is hitting my
                  harddrive and at what points during it's run does it
                  access the drive the most frequently. <br>
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                I've done something similar in bash before, but it is
                rather clunky. <br>
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              I'll take a look at exec and see if I can use it. <br>
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                  <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:46
                    PM, David <span dir="ltr"><<a
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                      <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Do you need
                        to do anything with the results or just need
                        them displayed?<br>
                        If you need to manipulate the results, consider
                        using Perl, <br>
                        or if C or C++,<br>
                        in your 'exec' call, pipe the output to a file,
                        then just read that file into your program.<br>
                        Ain't UNIX great?
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                          David M.<br>
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                          <div>Stephan Henning wrote:<br>
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                              <div>I'd like to take some metrics with
                                iostat while I have a specific program
                                running, is there a way to wrap iostat
                                around another program (it is called
                                from the command line) so that iostat
                                ends when the program finishes running?
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                              I know I can do it with a bash script, but
                              I'm hoping for a more elegant solution. <br>
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