Server load and MYSQL

[Gerald Combs]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 KRFinch at dstsystems.com wrote:

> from a few large ones.  Ideally, you would swap out those 18GB's for a set
> of 4 new 9GB's so you could spread the workload over more spindles.  Even

Iostat (part of the sysstat package) is handy for finding out which disks
and partitions are being hit the hardest, so that you can use your
spindles efficiently.  In particular, 'iostat -x' will give you tons of
useful information.