From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Nov 7 11:39:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (news.IAE.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A0F337B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:39:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.9.1/8.9.1) with IAEhv.nl id UAA06794; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 20:39:11 +0100 (MET) Received: by adv.devet.org (Postfix, from userid 100) id 489D83E12; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 20:38:44 +0100 (CET) To: dgilbert@velocet.ca Subject: Re: [scsi] Re: iostat: tps for SCSI drives ... X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd.scsi In-Reply-To: <14856.16970.881262.369015@trooper.velocet.net> References: <20001104221118.A4627@hand.dotat.at> Organization: Eindhoven, the Netherlands Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20001107193844.489D83E12@adv.devet.org> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 20:38:44 +0100 (CET) From: Arjan.deVet@adv.iae.nl (Arjan de Vet) Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <14856.16970.881262.369015@trooper.velocet.net> you write: >>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Finch writes: > >Tony> "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: >>> what is considered to be a 'saturated drive', as far as tps is >>> concerned? > >Tony> Obviously it depends on the drive. My laptop maxes out at about >Tony> 70tps but a good scsi disk can do 150. I use `systat -vm` to get >Tony> some idea of disk load relative to capacity. > >And that produces a % busy column. How does it calculate that number? I submitted the patch for that % busy row. It tries to calculate the percentage of time the disk was busy (one or more active commands) during the time period. There are some gotchas when doing this calculation, see the source for full details. My personal source tree now also contains a patch for a 'queue' row which displays the number of queued commands for the disk. Arjan -- Arjan de Vet, Eindhoven, The Netherlands URL: http://www.iae.nl/users/devet/ for PGP key: finger devet@iae.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message