How to track Average CPU Load and Disk Activity under Linux

For any System Admin working in Linux it’s imperative to know how to maintain a better balance in input/output load between physical disks.They can change the system configuration to generate better input/output load between physical disks. There is a simple command for monitoring system input/output device loading in Linux by observing the time the devices are active in relation to their average transfer rates.

Here is the command that generates report on Central Processing Unit (CPU) statistics and input/output statistics for devices, partitions and network filesystems (NFS)

isostat

Sample Output

For the NFS directory statistic you can use this command

# iostat -n