Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 09:26:52 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: frank@news.via.nl (frank) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more drives in iostat? Message-ID: <199611241526.JAA13224@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961124091631.23961A-100000@news.via.nl> from "frank" at Nov 24, 96 09:20:39 am
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> On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > >I don't know if this is the right place but I've been wondering > > >why there are only 4 drives showed by iostat. > > Only 4 drives fit in 80 columns. Actually, only 3 fit, because 4 take > > exactly 80 columns and line wrap wastes 1 column. > Hmm.. that is true. But mostly I work with xterms, which I can make as big > as I like. Maybe it could be an option? -w for wide maybe? =) > > Maybe the msps could be skipped for scsi-disks? Ide can only handle 4 anyhow, > and (at least for me) those columns are always 0. > > So maybe it could detect that for sd* it could skip msps and show more > drives? > > I think I'll study the code some more and try to patch it to do that, atleast > for myself I think it would be useful. Hi Frank, I had been meaning for some time now to devise a patch to increase the number of possible columns by one for every extra twelve columns available on the tty. I suspect it would not be too difficult, but instead I have mostly been using systat -io (I like the output a bit better). This however would probably be a welcome enhancement. ... JG
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