[nycbug-talk] Mac OSX Troubleshooting tools

[Isaac Levy]

Wordup Pete, Megan, Crew,

On Dec 18, 2004, at 12:50 AM, Pete Wright wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:26:58AM -0500, Megan Restuccia wrote:
>> Does anyone have a link to a good program for Mac OSX that will allow 
>> me to test max data throughput disk I/O read, writes, network and 
>> RAID caching performance (on varied size files - I have the inputs).  
>> I've been using pathrate, pathload, (dbench/tiobench - don't remember 
>> if these compiled on Mac) and various built-in tools and wanted to 
>> know what others used and good/bad points.
>>
> I don't know of any single app or utility that I would suggest to
> test/monitor Disk I/O.  The one utility that I do use frequently to
> monitor disk I/O and other activity is iostat (8).

iostat(8) is in Darwin/OSX, but after just popping it up here, it seems 
to be barfing a bit:

ikebook:/Users/ike ike$ iostat
iostat: sysctl(kern.tty_nin) failed: No such file or directory
iostat: disabling TTY statistics
           disk0       cpu
   KB/t tps  MB/s  us sy id
   9.76   1  0.01  13  6 81

--
Could be me- will investigate eventually...



On Dec 18, 2004, at 1:09 AM, O_Sleep wrote
> iozone is a throughput benchmark tool that does a pretty thorough job.
>
> http://www.iozone.org/
>
> -Bjorn

WOAH- Cool.  I want to try this thing...


On Dec 18, 2004, at 11:45 AM, G. Rosamond wrote:
> Megan:
>
> Definitely post to the LESMUUG list. . . apparently this is BER's 
> arena of expertise.
>
> http://lesmuug.org/mailman/listinfo/macosx-unix/
>
> George

Agreed- hit the list- (it's very low traffic).

Rocket-
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