How to diagnose slow disk I/O

Build IOspan, finding disk bottlenecks with iostat, iotop, latency.

  • Difficulty Intermediate
  • Parts 10
  • Stack iostat, iotop, latency

What you are learning

IOspan is finding disk bottlenecks. The teaching focus is Disk I/O (iostat, iotop, latency).

Work in order. Early parts set vocabulary and environment; later parts assume the earlier checkpoints.

How to use these lessons

Read the goal, open the matching GitHub folder, complete the lab or exercises, then return for the explanation. If a command fails, check you are in the numbered folder first.

Open the IOspan GitHub repo →

Parts in order

Each chapter below is one checkpoint in this lab.