On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Thank you! This gets the me disk %busy, which is one of the things I
> > was looking for. Now, can anyone tell me how to tell what percentage of
> > processor time is being spent waiting for disk I/O to complete?
>
> Uh, none?
>
> If there is disk I/O pending, the processor just runs a
> different process... am I missing your question?
I guess it might be useful to see the difference between
"true" idle time and time the system couldn't do anything
useful because it was blocked on the disk (but /should/
have done something useful...).
regards,
Rik
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