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<p>Created page with &quot;If a customer complains of slow disk performance, check the physical node that the customer is running the VPS on to determine whether this is indeed the case. Tools to determine...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>If a customer complains of slow disk performance, check the physical node that the customer is running the VPS on to determine whether this is indeed the case. Tools to determine disk I/O load are:<br /> <br /> ==atop==<br /> <br /> Type &#039;&#039;atop -dl&#039;&#039; and this will list the disk load. It will also list the top devices creating disk I/O.<br /> <br /> ==iostat==<br /> <br /> Type &#039;&#039;iostat -k -d -N 1 -z 100&#039;&#039;. This will view the I/O status each second for the next 100 seconds.</div>

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