From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 5 14:28:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gandalf.vi.bravenet.com (gandalf.bravenet.com [139.142.105.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0652D37B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:28:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dphoenix@bravenet.com) Received: (qmail 29 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Mar 2001 22:25:40 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Mar 2001 22:25:40 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:25:40 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Phoenix To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: systat -vmstat or iostat IO help Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would like to get a more accurate picture of each. example: webserver....abit of a high load......1 ide drive..memory ok [root@lotho dphoenix]# uptime 2:25PM up 2 days, 21:10, 1 user, load averages: 6.94, 8.23, 9.34 [root@lotho dphoenix]# systat -iostat /0 /10 /20 /30 /40 /50 /60 /70 /80 /90 /100 ad0 MB/s tps|XXXXXXX acd0 MB/s tps| fd0 MB/s tps| md0 MB/s tps| systat -vmstat Disks ad0 acd0 fd0 md0 89 ofod intrn KB/t 4.35 0.00 0.00 0.00 85 %slo-z 61952 buf tps 13 0 0 0 104 tfree 42 dirtybuf MB/s 0.05 0.00 0.00 0.00 36095 desiredvnodes % busy 100 0 0 0 58692 numvnodes 43991 freevnodes well vmstat showing 100% busy and iostat showing 10% busy...... IO an issue here or not? -- Dan +------------------------------------------------------+ | BRAVENET WEB SERVICES | | dan@bravenet.com | | make installworld | | ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail | | ln -s /var/qmail/bin/newaliases /usr/sbin/newaliases | +______________________________________________________+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message