iostat

iostat syntax for disk utilization report

iostat -d -x interval count

* -d : Display the device utilization report (d == disk)
* -x : Display extended statistics including disk utilization
* interval : It is time period in seconds between two samples . iostat 2 will give data at each 2 seconds interval.
* count : It is the number of times the data is needed . iostat 2 5 will give data at 2 seconds interval 5 times

* rrqm/s : The number of read requests merged per second that were queued to the hard disk
* wrqm/s : The number of write requests merged per second that were queued to the hard disk
* r/s : The number of read requests per second
* w/s : The number of write requests per second
* rsec/s : The number of sectors read from the hard disk per second
* wsec/s : The number of sectors written to the hard disk per second
* avgrq-sz : The average size (in sectors) of the requests that were issued to the device.
* avgqu-sz : The average queue length of the requests that were issued to the device
* await : The average time (in milliseconds) for I/O requests issued to the device to be served. This includes the time spent by the requests in queue and the time spent servicing them.
* svctm : The average service time (in milliseconds) for I/O requests that were issued to the device
* %util : Percentage of CPU time during which I/O requests were issued to the device (bandwidth utilization for the device). Device saturation occurs when this value is close to 100%.

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