How are you generating the load ? Orion is a good tool in that regard. From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Taylor, Chris David Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 2:11 PM To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: Need some ideas to create a disk IOPS profile for a RHEL 5.3 64bit system Ok, The subject pretty much says it all - I need some ideas on how to create an IO profile (specific to the disk I/O) for a server over "x" amount of time under the following constraints: 1.) Grid Control is not installed, but DBConsole is 2.) I have access to all standard system tools such as iostat, sar, etc 3.) I have access to the database itself with AWR data collection enabled I need to capture average reads & writes along with queue amounts and times. I have used sar -dp for short intervals, but I have to modify the output with vim and then import into excel to get it in a nice readable format. There has got to be a better way. Thanks, Chris