Question on io monitoring tools such as gstat and iostat

[Andrey Zonov]

On 8/28/12 3:14 PM, Andy Young wrote:
> I am relatively new to using IO monitoring tools and wanted to confirm I
> understand them correctly. If I specify an interval of 5 seconds, my
> assumption is that the data displayed is an average over that 5 second
> interval. Is that correct or am I misunderstanding how intervals work?
> 

Yes, you are right.  For more information you can read devstat(3) or
sources in src/lib/libdevstat/devstat.c.

-- 
Andrey Zonov

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