Ulisses Alonso wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Fernando Fernandez wrote: > > Can anyone point me to some info about how to find how much > > time the CPU is wasting waiting for disk I/O? > > maybe this is Ok if you want to do some "benchmarks": > > try it with the time command, for instance: > > time cp some_file to_some_other_file > > There is also a programm called bonnie in > sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/benchmarks (or something like this)
Thanks, but I don't really need a benchmark and the "time" command does not report what I need. What I'm searching for is something like vmstat that reports global CPU usage split by "system/user/idle waiting for io/really idle". This is for basic system performance tunning, not bechmarking. Thanks anyway! Fernando -- Fernando Fernandez http://despodata.pt/ddata/pessoal/ferdez.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]