iostat -x 1 3

Category: VPS Management

iostat -x 1 3

Show disk I/O utilization for each block device — 3 samples, 1 second apart

Reports read/write throughput and %util for each disk. High %util (near 100%) on the main disk indicates I/O saturation — the disk is the bottleneck for application performance.
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