Re: iostat patch: Add dillon's systat changes to iostat

[Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@xxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon schrieb:

>     * Provide options for various modes, with the default being the old
>       (KB/t, tps, MB/s) tuple, so the output can remain compact.
>       I recommend one that does (tps, MBr/s, MBw/s).

Yeah, thought about that, too. Will look into it.

>     * Maybe we can remove the tty statistics and add aggregate or
>       primary interface network statistics.  Nobody cares about tty
>       statistics any more but it would be kinda cool to see network
>       stats there mixed with the disk stats.

Can I get that from devstat also? Well, could just look at systat 
-ifstat, right? How to determine the "primary" interface?

If you don't want to see tty (which I fully understand :-) ) you could 
just use iostat -dC.

>     I am considering removing the tps/r, tps/w from systat -vm 1 and
>     just having tps, but keeping MBs/r and MBs/w.  I think people will
>     get more out of an aggregate tps stat.  Then for systat -vm 1
>     we would have:  (KB/t, tps, MBs/r, MBs/w) (I should rename those to
>     MBr/s and MBw/s I guess too).

Yep, Megabyte-seconds divided by writes (and reads) doesn't make a 
horrible lot of sense :-)

Jan