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authorBryan Harris <bryanlharris@gmail.com>2016-07-27 01:19:24 +0100
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+ioping
+======
+
+An tool to monitor I/O latency in real time.
+It shows disk latency in the same way as ping shows network latency.
+
+Homepage: https://github.com/koct9i/ioping/
+(migrated from http://code.google.com/p/ioping/)
+
+Please send your patches, issues and questions to
+https://github.com/koct9i/ioping/issues/
+
+Supported OS
+------------
+
+* GNU/Linux
+* GNU/HURD
+* Windows
+* OS X
+* FreeBSD
+* DragonFlyBSD
+* OpenBSD
+
+Packages
+--------
+
+* Debian: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/ioping
+* Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ioping
+* Fedora: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ioping
+* ArchLinux: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ioping
+* AltLinux: http://www.sisyphus.ru/en/srpm/Sisyphus/ioping
+* Gentoo: https://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-benchmarks/ioping
+* Nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/system/ioping/default.nix
+* FreeBSD: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/ioping
+* OS X: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/ioping.rb
+
+Examples
+--------
+
+Show disk I/O latency using the default values and the current directory, until interrupted
+
+```
+$ ioping .
+4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/sda3): request=1 time=0.2 ms
+4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/sda3): request=2 time=0.2 ms
+4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/sda3): request=3 time=0.3 ms
+4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/sda3): request=4 time=12.7 ms
+4096 bytes from . (ext4 /dev/sda3): request=5 time=0.3 ms
+^C
+--- . (ext4 /dev/sda3) ioping statistics ---
+5 requests completed in 4794.0 ms, 364 iops, 1.4 MiB/s
+min/avg/max/mdev = 0.2/2.8/12.7/5.0 ms
+```
+
+Measure disk seek rate (iops, avg)
+
+```
+$ ioping -R /dev/sda
+
+--- /dev/sda (device 465.8 GiB) ioping statistics ---
+186 requests completed in 3004.6 ms, 62 iops, 0.2 MiB/s
+min/avg/max/mdev = 6.4/16.0/26.8/4.7 ms
+```
+
+Measure disk sequential speed (MiB/s)
+
+```
+$ ioping -RL /dev/sda
+
+--- /dev/sda (device 465.8 GiB) ioping statistics ---
+837 requests completed in 3004.1 ms, 292 iops, 72.9 MiB/s
+min/avg/max/mdev = 2.0/3.4/28.9/2.0 ms
+```
+
+Authors
+-------
+
+* Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
+* Kir Kolyshkin <kir@openvz.org>
+
+Licensed under GPLv3 (or later) <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt>
+