On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:44:13AM +0000, void wrote:
> I've been using Solaris a lot lately, and I've noticed that in e.g.
> top's output, it has a distinct CPU state called "iowait", which seems
> to be a pretty good indicator of how I/O-bound a system is. Is there
> any reason that FreeBSD doesn't have such a state? "iostat" also seems
> a lot less informative than Sun's. What should I be using to measure
> I/O utilization on FreeBSD?
>From the iostat(8) man page:
SEE ALSO
fstat(1), netstat(1), nfsstat(1), ps(1), systat(1), pstat(8),
vmstat(8)
What information are you looking for specifically?
Have a look at systat(1). It presents the activity on your system
nicely, breaking it down into several descriptive categories which
are documented in the man page.
Try this:
$ systat -io
Hope that helps,
-brian
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