From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Nov 7 9:56:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [198.96.118.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3DF37B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 09:56:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from office.tor.velocet.net (trooper.velocet.net [204.138.45.2]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60950137F0C; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 12:55:59 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by office.tor.velocet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA38209; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 12:56:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14856.16970.881262.369015@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 12:56:26 -0500 (EST) To: Tony Finch Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: [scsi] Re: iostat: tps for SCSI drives ... In-Reply-To: <20001104221118.A4627@hand.dotat.at> References: <20001104221118.A4627@hand.dotat.at> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "Tony" == Tony Finch writes: Tony> "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: >> what is considered to be a 'saturated drive', as far as tps is >> concerned? Tony> Obviously it depends on the drive. My laptop maxes out at about Tony> 70tps but a good scsi disk can do 150. I use `systat -vm` to get Tony> some idea of disk load relative to capacity. And that produces a % busy column. How does it calculate that number? Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message