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Re: identifying bottlenecks



On Wednesday 02 November 2005 08:47 am, Marc Brünink wrote:
> I've an application which should be as fast as possible. Therefore
> I'm trying to identify the bottleneck of the system for this special
> program. The application just uses 50 % of the CPU according to top.
> So the bottleneck have to be somewhere else. Is there a program to
> monitor the usage of memory and hard drive throughput while this app
> is running? Some sort of "top" for memory and hard drive?

Use iostat from the sysstat package. Its extended output option will 
show you the utilization of the hard disks.

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