I would like to know how the value of disk "busy" is calculated?

I want to use values from iostat in the monitoring (zabbix).
iostat shows averages by default and the last column is "busy %", but the first output contains averages from the system boot til now.

# iostat -x -t da
                        extended device statistics
device     r/s   w/s    kr/s    kw/s qlen svc_t  %b
ada0       2.5  13.8    49.0   287.9    0  45.7   2
ada1       2.6  13.8    51.7   287.9    0  39.6   2

I don't want to use "iostat -x -t da -w 20" to get averages of the last 20 seconds because it means monitoring needs to wait 20 seconds on each run.

I can use absolute values from iostat. This output is without any delay and the monitoring SW can calculate averages between two runs. But the last column is no busy %, it is sb/i.

# iostat -I -x -t da
                        extended device statistics
device r/i w/i kr/i kw/i qlen tsvc_t/i sb/i ada0 7403218.0 40825749.0 144647824.0 849655694.0 0 2204904.2 73121.8 ada1 7537423.0 40825749.0 152643874.5 849655694.0 0 1914301.0 69996.5

So the question is - If I want to plot "busy %" in the graph - how the "busy" value in the first example is calculated? Is it possible to calculate it from the numbers that I have from "iostat -I -x" and the know time interval between two runs?

Miroslav Lachman
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