iostat output

[xcvzxvzxdv]

Hi, can anybody tell me wht do I understand by the output of this command iostat.

# iostat

device bps sps msps

c2t0d0 0 0.0 1.0
c2t1d0 0 0.0 1.0
c12t0d6 0 0.0 1.0
c12t0d7 0 0.0 1.0
c12t0d0 0 0.0 1.0
c12t0d2 0 0.0 1.0
c12t0d5 0 0.0 1.0
c12t0d3 0 0.0 1.0
c12t0d1 0 0.0 1.0
c18t5d0 0 0.0 1.0
c19t7d0 0 0.0 1.0

[Derek Whigham_1]

iostat iteratively reports I/O statistics for each active disk on the system. Disk data is arranged in a four-column format:
Column Heading Interpretation
device Device name
bps Kilobytes transferred per second
sps Number of seeks per second
msps Milliseconds per average seek

I would use "iostat 1 60"
this reports every second for 60 seconds

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

Device is the disk drive name, bps is the number of kilobytes transferred per second, sps indicates the number of disk seeks per second, and msps is the average time, in milliseconds, for a disk seek.
Regards

[xcvzxvzxdv]

thks for ur reply, but I need to know how can i do performance monitoring from this command is there and threshold for this.

And how would I know if the disk is performing well or not

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

You may find other tools more helpful.

glance.

These scripts:
http://www.hpux.ws/system.perf.sh

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[Chan 007]

Please see the link, and scan for Sridhar

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=104010

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