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From: chris@usc.edu (Christopher Ho)
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Subject: Re: Disk I/O monitor at HSC level -- is it out there?
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Date: 15 Jun 90 03:20:01 GMT
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In article <107.2677926e@astro.pc.ab.com>, ferroni@astro.pc.ab.com (Paul Ferroni) writes...
>About a year ago, several people from our organization met with DEC's disk 
>experts on "futures" in the disk area.  Out of that meeting came a promise for
>some (then existing) software that runs on the HSC which monitors the actual 
>throughput (i/o's per second) of each disk.

There's a utility called VTDPY starting with CRONIC 3.7 (I think) which gives
an overall indication of HSC load, but won't break it down on a per disk basis.

Perhaps some combination of that plus MONITOR DISK on the CI-connected machines
would be sufficient to supply the info you need?

Chris