Disk Performance Plugin

[Bob Snyder]

roger wrote:

>I believe this "extended disk statistics" feature is also provided with the 
>standard 2.4.21 kernel.org (I think this is a back-port from 2.5!?).
>
>If your 2.4 kernel hasn't got these extended disk statistics, you can retrieve 
>the rsect/wsect data from /proc/stat.
>However, I'm not sure you will get these statistics at the partition level - I 
>mean I'm afraid that the only statistics you can get will be for the whole 
>disk only.
>

Ahh, yes, 2.4.20 has it too, I just don't have it turned on. I'll have 
to try it.

So many kernel options, so little time.

Thanks,

Bob S.