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From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>
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To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
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Subject: Re: bin/115: systat iostat display doesn't scale high enough
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* The problem here is that the scale at the top has to work for three
* different things -- megabytes per second, transactions per second, and
* kilobytes per transaction.
* 
* We could make the scale larger, so that you get a better picture of
* transactions per second, but then the scale would be off for megabytes per
* second on most systems.  (kilobytes per transaction as well)
* 
* Really, IMO, the standard systat -iostat display isn't very useful.  I
* think the :numbers version of the display is more useful, and easier
* to read.
* 
* The -vmstat display gives you more overall information, and iostat(8) is
* better for long term statistics gathering.

I have to translate that as:

	I don't see a good way to fix the problem

	It isn't that important anyway because there are better
	displays available anyway.

A bit of a cop-out but systat at least displays a number when things
can't fit.  In '95 I don't think it did that.

-Dave


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