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Date:      Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:42:32 +0400
From:      Andrey Zonov <zont@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andy Young <ayoung@mosaicarchive.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question on io monitoring tools such as gstat and iostat
Message-ID:  <503D0308.70109@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAHMRaQcmY_oEvMGKXYtkEU%2Bt7LrSogFT3AbakrRxHakKabNhwg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CAHMRaQcmY_oEvMGKXYtkEU%2Bt7LrSogFT3AbakrRxHakKabNhwg@mail.gmail.com>

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On 8/28/12 3:14 PM, Andy Young wrote:
> I am relatively new to using IO monitoring tools and wanted to confirm I
> understand them correctly. If I specify an interval of 5 seconds, my
> assumption is that the data displayed is an average over that 5 second
> interval. Is that correct or am I misunderstanding how intervals work?
> 

Yes, you are right.  For more information you can read devstat(3) or
sources in src/lib/libdevstat/devstat.c.

-- 
Andrey Zonov


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