Original Address:CentOS Monitoring Tools Sar,iostat
Author:Every day down
Yum-y Install Sysstat
Whereis SAR
Whereis Iostat
You can see the relevant commands
If you install with RPM package under Redhat, you can go to http://rpmfind.net/to find the Sysstat RPM package.
Also attached: Linux disk IO View related commands and instructions
From:http://blog.chinaunix.net/u3/93062/showart_1934431.html
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# iostat-x 1 10
Linux 2.6.18-92.el5xen 02/03/2009
AVG-CPU:%user%nice%system%iowait%steal%idle
1.10 0.00 4.82 39.54 0.07 54.46
device:rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await SVCTM%util
SDA 0.00 3.50 0.40 2.50 5.60 48.00 18.48 0.00 0.97 0.97 0.28
SDB 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
SDC 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
SDD 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
SDE 0.00 0.10 0.30 0.20 2 2.40 9.60 0.00 1.60 1.60 0.08
SDF 17.40 0.50 102.00 0.20 12095.20