Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:45:14 +0200 From: Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> To: Stefan Parvu <sparvu@systemdatarecorder.org> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I like iostat, but... Message-ID: <659899B2-1816-41FA-9DED-57416928A1EE@sarenet.es> In-Reply-To: <20140923113844.6f9e9584965dfd401f6943af@systemdatarecorder.org> References: <20140922212209.GA9619@albert.catwhisker.org> <20140923113844.6f9e9584965dfd401f6943af@systemdatarecorder.org>
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On Sep 23, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Stefan Parvu wrote: > >> ... I rather wish I could get the same information via sysctl. (Well, >> something seems to be available via the "opaque" kern.devstat.all >> sysctl(8) variable, but sysctl(8) doesn't display all of it, and parsing >> it seems as if that would require knowledge about the internals of the >> system where the data were acquired.) > > I gave up parsing sysctl via Perl for disks and network devices. It would be > nice to have devstat properly working via sysctl for disk devices. Similar way > kern.cp_times does. Currently there is no simple way to extract per disk stats from > sysctl as a Perl or Sh consumer, unless we build a C module to do that. Anyway, for disk stats GEOM offers a nice API. You can get delays per GEOM provider, bandwidths, etc. Borja.home | help
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