On Friday 23 June 2006 01:12, Matt Ruzicka wrote: > 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. > > Are there other ways in FreeBSD to pull the percentage of time the disk is > busy? >
gstat gives percentage load per (device|slice|partition) which is what I think you need. but it's written for interactive use, it issues commands to the terminal so you cannot have its output to file... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
