KB Article #178280

How to monitor the disk I/O

Problem

Here is the unittest disk tool that provides real time information about the disk I/O usage.



Resolution

The instructions to run it:

-- Compile the file "unittest.c" using the c compiler from the environment where the tool needs to be deployed,
-- Create the target file where the output of the tool will be sent : "touch filename"
-- execute the following command : time ./"name of the compiled file" filename