Project: ioload

Last night, I started writing ioload, an nload-like program that monitors per-disk iops and bandwidth. Here is the first functional result:

I picked the /proc/diskstats interface to disk stats on Linux purely because it was the first. There is also an in interface under /sys/block/*/stat that gives a per-disk view directly. Upstream nload supports both procfs and sysfs on Linux.

Future work:

• Either merge with nload or clean up code to replace network with disk references.
• Support sysfs on Linux for anyone without procfs mounted.
• BSD Port
• HPUX Port
• Solaris Port
• Man Pages

Patches Welcome.