From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 23 14:18:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F04816A494 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:18:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@frii.com) Received: from mail.frii.com (phobos02.frii.net [216.17.128.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF6FE43D53 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:18:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@frii.com) Received: from elara.frii.com (elara.frii.com [216.17.128.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.frii.com (FRII) with ESMTP id 16D88A4420 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:18:20 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:18:16 -0600 (MDT) From: Matt Ruzicka X-X-Sender: mattr@elara.frii.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200606231443.47994.nvass@teledomenet.gr> Message-ID: References: <200606231443.47994.nvass@teledomenet.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: **questions** Re: Tracking if disk is busy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:18:21 -0000 Thanks for all the input, this puts us on track. Seems like considering snmp is probably our best bet based on our needs, but these other suggestions give lots of good info. Thanks. Matt Ruzicka - Senior Systems Administrator Front Range Internet, Inc. matt@frii.net - (970) 212-0728 On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On Friday 23 June 2006 01:12, Matt Ruzicka wrote: >> We've got a couple servers that appear to have particularly busy disks and >> I was trying to determine if there is a way to more easily poll this data >> for tracking. >> >> I'm not sure if this is one of those can't see the forest for the trees >> issues or not, but the only means that I am familiar with to see the >> percentage of time the disk is busy is to run 'systat -vmstat'. I was >> hoping for something more concise that I could run periodically and maybe >> even graph (realizing that watching this might well distort the results). >> >> It appears that iostat on Solaris gives this information, but I can't seem >> to mimic this functionality with FreeBSD. >> >> Are there other ways in FreeBSD to pull the percentage of time the disk is >> busy? >> > > gstat gives percentage load per (device|slice|partition) which is what I think > you need. but it's written for interactive use, it issues commands to the > terminal so you cannot have its output to file... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >