From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 17 07:55:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04568 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 07:55:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from world.virtual-earth.de (world.virtual-earth.de [194.231.209.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04464; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:54:27 GMT (envelope-from mathiasp@mp.virtual-earth.de) Received: from mp.virtual-earth.de (mp.virtual-earth.de [194.231.209.35]) by world.virtual-earth.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA26678; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:53:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mp.virtual-earth.de (localhost.virtual-earth.de [127.0.0.1]) by mp.virtual-earth.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA02036; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:53:33 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199804171453.QAA02036@mp.virtual-earth.de> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:53:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mathias Picker Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Sendmail To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9061.892819234@gjp.erols.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; BOUNDARY="0-846930886-892824816=:1123" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk --0-846930886-892824816=:1123 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII On 17 Apr, Gary Palmer wrote: > Greg Hormann wrote in message ID > : [snip] > Thanks for the hints (I already know systat :-) ), but the figures don't > really account for idleness, just busyness. There is no measure of how > much capacity is left in the drive to do i/o operations. (Believe me, I > watch systat -v 1 like a hawk during performance tuning) > > The vmstat display basically shows the same ammount of info about > the disks that iostat does, just differently. Stuff not available: > > - Number of queued tagged commands (if supported). This could give > a rough indication of if the drive was busy or not. > > - Average seek time. The number of transactions/second (or seeks/sec) Try using the msps option in systat -i ?? The manpage says: msps Toggle the display of average seek time (the de- fault is to not display seek times). I don't know if it's correct, but it does show some numbers :) -- Mathias Picker Social Studies * Information Architecture Mathias.Picker@virtual-earth.de +49 172 / 89 19 381 --0-846930886-892824816=:1123 Content-Type: APPLICATION/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQCVAwUBNTds6qzvoSjVwVSdAQF21AQAuDs5O2pVxEQ2eoW828O932QefZexWvbU M/C3f2Qk7LZ7TqET3bOG3N5zzTmP/iJKC9IS6PEYd+t76QDboymxbtytCD7U8tNl OIxnzbisp7g1W3bnsgxyGHwxcdU/u3OHWEqhuq+d/TuOEhfnSN6iVOszCPg15mrZ N2oqkxerJm4= =Urjh -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --0-846930886-892824816=:1123-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message