centos io 查看程序_centos 查看每天应用程序的iowait

A question I’m asked daily is “How can I find out what is generating iowait on my server?” Sure, you can dig through pages of lsof output, restart services, or run strace, but it can be a frustrating process. I saw a process on this blog post, and I changed the regexes to fit Red Hat and CentOS systems a bit better:

# /etc/init.d/syslog stop

# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump

# dmesg | egrep "READ|WRITE|dirtied" | egrep -o '([a-zA-Z]*)' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head

1526 mysqld

819 httpd

429 kjournald

35 qmail

27 in

7 imapd

6 irqbalance

5 pop

4 pdflush

3 spamc

In my specific situation, it looks like MySQL is the biggest abuser of my disk, followed by Apache and the filesystem journaling. As expected, qmail is a large contender, too.

Don’t forget to set things back to their normal state when you’re done!

# echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump

# /etc/init.d/syslog start

http://rackerhacker.com/2008/03/11/hunting-down-elusive-sources-of-iowait/