high iowait

[Kaushal Shriyan]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Benjamin Griese <der.darude at gmail.com> wrote:
> For documentation purpose please just post your found solution.
> Thanks! :)
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 14:17, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Dirk Deimeke <dirk at deimeke.net> wrote:
>> > Answering Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>
>> > (Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:03:19 +0530):
>> >
>> >> I have installed iotop already on my server. The issue is that i need
>> >> to closely watch it regularly, is there a way i get notified when
>> >> there is a high IO activity using iotop. I searched the web and saw
>> >> sar utility too. Hence the question.
>> >
>> > Community is "give and take". I never see a message from your side,
>> > that an advise helped you and I can't even find any experiences you
>> > make with the tools suggested. Why?
>> >
>> > Paul suggested to use Munin.
>> >
>> >> Please suggest further.
>> >
>> > Give and take ...
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> > Dirk
>>
>> Hi Dirk,
>>
>> Did some web search again and made it worked this time. Thanks for all
>> the help. And appreciate all the help and suggestions. Its a good
>> learning experience.
>>
>> Thanks Sander,Paul
>>
>> Apologies again.
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>>
>> Kaushal
>>
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Hi,

As Benjamin suggested about documentation

I have installed iotop and added the below entries in fcron

*/10 * * * * root /usr/lib/sysstat/sa1 1 1
53 23 * * * root /usr/lib/sysstat/sa2 -A

That worked as needed.

Thanks for the help

Kaushal