I hope this is not too off-topic, but here goes. I have a linux system (RH AS 3.0) running Oracle 9iR2. I'm monitoring disk usage on our RAID arrays by executing iostat and capturing the output to a file. Eventually, I'd like to plot the data out and see how the disks are performing. I'm currently executing iostat every 5 minutes. How would one determine the interval granularity? I guess it would depend on a lot of things. So for example, if it's very busy take an iostat snapshot every 5 or 10 minutes, say. If it's lightly loaded, take a snapshot every minute perhaps? Any thoughts? -- mohammed __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l