We use iostat to collect statistics of hard drive activity. We've been seeing
some values for the transaction wait column that look suspicious. This is easy
to reproduce by just running iostat repeatedly over a short period of time, as
I show below. Notice the third from last column. From what
On Wed, 5 May 2010 07:34:55 -0500, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote:
We use iostat to collect statistics of hard drive activity. We've been
seeing some values for the transaction wait column that look
suspicious. This is easy to reproduce by just running iostat
repeatedly over a short
This looks like a bug in iostat. 4294967295 == 2 * 32 - -1
It seems that some call returns (unsigned long)-1, e.g. to indicate a failing
system/library call but iostat still prints the result:
Which _precise_ version of FreeBSD are you using?
Well, that's a good question. The particular
