On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:20:45PM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Its me again bothering you with basic things I cant accomplish. >> >> I am planning on monitoring my disks, and the most important >> information for me is thorughput and lengh queue of operations. I can >> get the first information with iostat -w1 and sorta, which is perfect >> for scripting. >> >> However, I also need the L(q) information which FreeBSD gives me with >> gstat. However, this curses interface wont allow me to use grep+awk to >> get the information I need for the device (slices and disks, but not >> labels) I need. > > Can you tell me what the L(q) field actually represents in gstat? > > The BUGS section of the gstat man page should indirectly answer your > other question (re: non-curses).
Yes, I have read that. I am looking the source code for gstat. Its simple, small and clear. I guess can be asily modified to have what I want :) > >> So I ask, how can I get this information other than gstat? Or, can >> gstat work in non-interactive mode? > > iostat -x should provide what you're looking for. And remember, the > first sample data shown in iostat should be generally discarded. I need the queue lengh of pending disk operations. What L(q) shows is the lengh queue, the queued number of pending operations (I believe). > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > -- =========== Eduardo Meyer pessoal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] profissional: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
