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    Excellent approach.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Arthur wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CA+r_57=1Ej24NJhTVHLwip3Tpbpo0K7CMsaJTpMuCCm5ufN35Q@mail.gmail.com"
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      <div dir="ltr">How big are the files that you're dealing with?
        <div>If they're small you can just make a ramdisk and try
          running everything in there.</div>
        <div>It's not a final solution, but between that and strace you
          should be able to see if that's really the issue or not.</div>
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        <div>Are you compiling from source?  If you are, then there are
          a bunch of debugging tools you can use as well as doing things
          like timing individual commands, and seeing how many times
          each line of code is run.</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:48 PM,
          Stephan Henning <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:shenning@gmail.com" target="_blank">shenning@gmail.com</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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            <div dir="ltr">This is a RedHat6 Enterprise install. 
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              <div>I don't think htop has the data I need, but I'll
                check. I'm not familiar with ntop and I didn't consider
                using trace for this, I'll check that as well.</div>
              <div><br>
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              <div>The goal is to record read/write rates and block
                sizes. I'm pretty sure I am bottlenecking against the
                drive array, I'm hoping I can get some definitive
                answers from this. </div>
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                  <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:01
                    PM, David <span dir="ltr"><<a
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="mailto:ainut@knology.net" target="_blank">ainut@knology.net</a>></span>
                    wrote:<br>
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                      <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> ntop might
                        do the trick, but not available in Fedora.
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                            <div>David wrote:<br>
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                            <blockquote type="cite"> Can 'htop' show
                              open files?<br>
                              <br>
                              For intensive live net data, look at
                              WireShark for linux.<br>
                              <br>
                              <br>
                              <div>David wrote:<br>
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                              <blockquote type="cite"> 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>
                                <br>
                                David M.<br>
                                <br>
                                <br>
                                <div>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"
                                          href="mailto:shenning@gmail.com"
                                          target="_blank">shenning@gmail.com</a>></span>
                                      wrote:<br>
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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>
                                                <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
                                                    moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ainut@knology.net" target="_blank">ainut@knology.net</a>></span>
                                                wrote:<br>
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                                                    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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                                                      <br>
                                                      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? <br>
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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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