The server is slow to hell, badly accessing remotely, a simple ls it’s enougth to take a lot of seconds running… openning a program, no way… lot of minutes, time to take a cup of coffee.
You, don’t understanding what’s goin on, go get a look at the server, sometimes wishing to reset it, then, surprisely see that the HD LED look’s like the POWER one, but, Red…
Then think: “Whata…”
In situations like that where are a lot of disk activities, come the question “What now?”, how to verify what is doing such a lot of disk access?
There are tools for that, like iostat and vmstat columns bi and bo
Iostat is a tool that’s is very handy in cases like this one, but his values interpretation and the way that the values are on screen aren’t frendly.
For that, there’s a very handy tool, iotop, it have a very nice CLI interface that show the I/O data. Utilize the very own values that kernel pass throught and show us in a very elegant style
Needs to have Python >= 2.5 and kernel Linux >= 2.6.20 with those options enabled
To execute the program without installing it, just call via CLI:
In case that the following error comes:
It’s because you haven’t the python installed os it isn’t the 2.5 version. It’s necessary to install it.
to
Ok, time to run the script
If any of the pre-requisites won’t be safisfied, a message like this one will show informing what is missing
Python 2.5 it’s OK, but kernel isn’t.
Simple, compiling kernel with those options:
To compile the new kernel, there’s a post here that explains it, here I’ll show you just which options to be considered, compile and install the kernel it’s with you now
in case you already installed this kernel before, will need to generate again an image initrd and use the flag --force with rpm -ivh --force command.
./setup.py install
How it was installed python 2.5, if you run /usr/bin/iotop the following error will be gracefuly show to you
To resolve that one, it’s quite simple, into directory where you extracted iotop, in this case /usr/src/iotop-0.3.1 copy the entire directory iotop to /usr/lib/python-2.5
And after that, edit the file /usr/bin/iptop and modify the line of interpreter
from
to
Ok, iotop running!
You, don’t understanding what’s goin on, go get a look at the server, sometimes wishing to reset it, then, surprisely see that the HD LED look’s like the POWER one, but, Red…
Then think: “Whata…”
In situations like that where are a lot of disk activities, come the question “What now?”, how to verify what is doing such a lot of disk access?
There are tools for that, like iostat and vmstat columns bi and bo
Iostat is a tool that’s is very handy in cases like this one, but his values interpretation and the way that the values are on screen aren’t frendly.
For that, there’s a very handy tool, iotop, it have a very nice CLI interface that show the I/O data. Utilize the very own values that kernel pass throught and show us in a very elegant style
Needs to have Python >= 2.5 and kernel Linux >= 2.6.20 with those options enabled
- CONFIG_TASKSTATS
- CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT
- CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
Pre-requisites
- CentOS / RedHat 5.3 minimal installation
- Compiling a new kernel (2.6.30.5) in Linux CentOS 5.3 / Red Hat 5.3
2.tar jxvf iotop-0.3.1.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src3.cd /usr/src/iotop-0.3.1/1../iotop.py01.Traceback (most recent call last):02. File "./iotop.py", line 8, in ?03. from iotop.ui import main04. File "/usr/src/iotop-0.3.1/iotop/ui.py", line 12, in ?05. from iotop.data import find_uids, TaskStatsNetlink, ProcessList06. File "/usr/src/iotop-0.3.1/iotop/data.py", line 12, in ?07. from iotop import ioprio, vmstat08. File "/usr/src/iotop-0.3.1/iotop/ioprio.py", line 1, in ?09. import ctypesInstalling Python 2.5 on Red Hat 5.3 / CentOS 5.3
Red Hat 5 / CentOS 5 comes with python 2.4 by default. It isn’t cool to simply install the new version over the default one, instead, I’m disponibilizing here the RPMs of python 2.5 for Red Hat 5 / CentOS 5 that will be installed in his own directory /usr/bin/python25, so, the scripts that Yum and others scripts made use of python 2.4 won’t get hurt.- python25-2.5.1-fogonacaixadagua2.i386.rpm wget http://www.virtualxp.org/downloads/python25/RPMS/i386/python25-2.5.1-fogonacaixadagua2.i386.rpm
- python25-devel-2.5.1-fogonacaixadagua2.i386.rpm wget http://www.virtualxp.org/downloads/python25/RPMS/i386/python25-devel-2.5.1-fogonacaixadagua2.i386.rpm
- python25-libs-2.5.1-fogonacaixadagua2.i386.rpm wget http://www.virtualxp.org/downloads/python25/RPMS/i386/python25-libs-2.5.1-fogonacaixadagua2.i386.rpm
- python25-test-2.5.1-fogonacaixadagua2.i386.rpm wget http://www.virtualxp.org/downloads/python25/RPMS/i386/python25-test-2.5.1-fogonacaixadagua2.i386.rpm
Executing iotop.py
With python25 installed, it’s time to modify the script iotop.py and change the interpreter on the first line, from:1.#!/usr/bin/python1.#!/usr/bin/python251../iotop.py1.Could not run iotop as some of the requirements are not met:2.- Python >= 2.5 for AF_NETLINK support: Found3.- Linux >= 2.6.20 with I/O accounting support (CONFIG_TASKSTATS, CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT, CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING): Not foundSimple, compiling kernel with those options:
To compile the new kernel, there’s a post here that explains it, here I’ll show you just which options to be considered, compile and install the kernel it’s with you now
1.General setup --->2....3.[*] Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)4.[*] Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)5.[*] Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)6.[*] Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)7....Kernel 2.6.30.5 (rpm) with process statistics ready to be used with iotop
To install1.rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.30.5fogonacaixadagua-1.i386.rpmiotop running
Installing iotop
Into the directory you extracted iotop-0.3.1 run the command./setup.py install
1.cd /usr/src/iotop-0.3.12../setup.py install1.Traceback (most recent call last):2.File "/usr/bin/iotop", line 4, in 3.import pkg_resources4.ImportError: No module named pkg_resources1.cd /usr/src/iotop-0.3.12.cp -Rp iotop /usr/lib/python2.5/from
1.#!/usr/bin/python1.#!/usr/bin/python25
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