Re: Question on io monitoring tools such as gstat and iostat

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel Braniss
This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enigCDF012FCB4FC78B4732FDA45 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 8/28/12 3:14 PM, Andy Young wrote: I am relatively new to using IO monitoring tools and wanted

Re: Question on io monitoring tools such as gstat and iostat

2012-08-29 Thread Andrey Zonov
On 8/29/12 12:07 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enigCDF012FCB4FC78B4732FDA45 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 8/28/12 3:14 PM, Andy Young wrote: I am relatively new

Question on io monitoring tools such as gstat and iostat

2012-08-28 Thread Andy Young
I am relatively new to using IO monitoring tools and wanted to confirm I understand them correctly. If I specify an interval of 5 seconds, my assumption is that the data displayed is an average over that 5 second interval. Is that correct or am I misunderstanding how intervals work? Thanks! Andy

Re: Question on io monitoring tools such as gstat and iostat

2012-08-28 Thread Andrey Zonov
On 8/28/12 3:14 PM, Andy Young wrote: I am relatively new to using IO monitoring tools and wanted to confirm I understand them correctly. If I specify an interval of 5 seconds, my assumption is that the data displayed is an average over that 5 second interval. Is that correct or am I

Re: Question on io monitoring tools such as gstat and iostat

2012-08-28 Thread Andrew Young
Thanks Andrey! Sent from my iPhone On Aug 28, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Andrey Zonov z...@freebsd.org wrote: On 8/28/12 3:14 PM, Andy Young wrote: I am relatively new to using IO monitoring tools and wanted to confirm I understand them correctly. If I specify an interval of 5 seconds, my assumption