Les Mikesell wrote: > Saturn2888 wrote: > > > Since it was mentioned before, here's iostat: > > > > Every 2.0s: iostat > > > > Fri Apr 23 > > 05:34:51 2010 > > > > Linux 2.6.24-27-server (grubber) 04/23/2010 > > > > avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle > > 19.91 0.04 2.99 70.84 0.00 6.23 > > > > Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn > > sda 92.73 1937.06 2538.96 196266513 257252240 > > > > > > The first set of values from iostat is a long accumulation that you normally > should ignore. If you give a number on the command line it will run > continuously reporting every so many seconds. A value of 1 to 5 should give > you > meaningful samples when the machine is busy. > > But, that 70% iowait number pretty much tells you what the machine is doing > with > most of its time... > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell < at > gmail.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users < at > lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
I did "watch iostat" and saw that consistently. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by saturn2...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
