From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 16 15:12:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from brutus.conectiva.com.br (brutus.conectiva.com.br [200.250.58.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 483D737B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:12:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (riel@localhost) by brutus.conectiva.com.br (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAGNC0226107; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 21:12:00 -0200 X-Authentication-Warning: duckman.distro.conectiva: riel owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 21:12:00 -0200 (BRDT) From: Rik van Riel X-Sender: riel@duckman.distro.conectiva To: Terry Lambert Cc: void , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "iowait" CPU state In-Reply-To: <200011162304.QAA03952@usr08.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Ummm, how about a situation where you have a steadily > > increasing work load (more customers?) and want to have > > decent statistics of your servers to determine exactly > > what parts to upgrade and/or if you need to put extra > > machines into service? > > Two words: capacity planning. For which you really want all the useful statistics the OS could give you. (including maybe the %iowait one) cheers, Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message