From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 30 19:17:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eyelab.psy.msu.edu (eyelab.psy.msu.edu [35.8.64.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D50ED150B7 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:17:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gary@eyelab.psy.msu.edu) Received: from piper (dyn1-tnt13-66.detroit.mi.ameritech.net [199.179.188.66]) by eyelab.psy.msu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA53134; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 22:14:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gary@eyelab.psy.msu.edu) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990830215006.00a32df0@eyelab.msu.edu> X-Sender: gary@eyelab.msu.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:54:58 -0400 To: Alfred Perlstein From: Gary Schrock Subject: Re: tools for checking disk load? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.0.58.19990830211508.00a2c4d0@eyelab.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:19 PM 8/30/99 +0000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > considering some upgrades. I know when I read the archives I saw some > > discussion about expanding iostat to give more statistics that would be > > useful for this (since msps seems to be useless), but this was all in > 1995, > > and nothing seems to have come of it. > >try "iostat" and "systat -iostat" good luck, The problem with iostat is that quite honestly the information there really isn't all that informative. Ok, yeah, iostat will give you information on sectors per second and transfers per second, but really, that's not a whole lot. The msps measurement doesn't seem to be implemented at all. There was a lot of talk several years ago about adding some measurements that would have been usefull (things like number of tasks waiting on the disk), but as far as I can tell nothing ever got done with those. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message