Re: iostat - define Kilobits per transfer

2003-01-22 Thread Mark Rowlands
On Thursday 23 January 2003 5:40 am, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Dax Eckenberg wrote: > > > so what exactly does KB per transaction mean? what happens if I am > > > handling 300 concurrent users with 160Kbit encoded audio streams - > > > could I in fact do this on this machin

Re: iostat - define Kilobits per transfer

2003-01-22 Thread Noah Garrett Wallach
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Dax Eckenberg wrote: > > > > > > so what exactly does KB per transaction mean? what happens if I am > > handling 300 concurrent users with 160Kbit encoded audio streams - could I > > in fact do this on this machine? or will I be limited by the 64KB/t > > issue? > > > > 300 x

Re: iostat - define Kilobits per transfer

2003-01-22 Thread Dax Eckenberg
> > > I currently have an IDE drive that has the capacity to do 128KB/t and > > > a SCSI drive 64KB/t. Are these stats in fact showing me that there > > > is a limitation with the SCSI drive? Are my file transfering > > > capaibilities less with the SCSI drive? I suppose what do I need to > > >

Re: iostat - define Kilobits per transfer

2003-01-22 Thread Noah Garrett Wallach
> > > I currently have an IDE drive that has the capacity to do 128KB/t and > > a SCSI drive 64KB/t. Are these stats in fact showing me that there > > is a limitation with the SCSI drive? Are my file transfering > > capaibilities less with the SCSI drive? I suppose what do I need to > > look for

Re: iostat - define Kilobits per transfer

2003-01-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 22), Noah Garrett Wallach said: > can somebody give me a better understanding of what the iostat output > is decribing in the KB/t column. It might be really simple but > figured I';d ask, if in fact further clarification can be given. > > typhoon% iostat 1 > tty

iostat - define Kilobits per transfer

2003-01-22 Thread Noah Garrett Wallach
Hi, can somebody give me a better understanding of what the iostat output is decribing in the KB/t column. It might be really simple but figured I';d ask, if in fact further clarification can be given. typhoon% iostat 1 tty da0 da1 acd0 tin tout KB/t