> > In the last episode (Jun 22), Matt Ruzicka said: > > We've got a couple servers that appear to have particularly > busy disks > > and I was trying to determine if there is a way to more easily poll > > this data for tracking. > > > > I'm not sure if this is one of those can't see the forest for the > > trees issues or not, but the only means that I am familiar > with to see > > the percentage of time the disk is busy is to run 'systat > -vmstat'. I > > was hoping for something more concise that I could run periodically > > and maybe even graph (realizing that watching this might > well distort > > the results). > > > > It appears that iostat on Solaris gives this information, > but I can't > > seem to mimic this functionality with FreeBSD. > > iostat on -current and 6-stable has a Solaris-style -x mode > with a percent-busy column. > > --
Use : systat -vm 1 that will give you all the info u need, you can also try: systat -io 1 '%busy' _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"