Question on io monitoring tools such as gstat and iostat

[Andrew Young]

Thanks Andrey!

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On Aug 28, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Andrey Zonov <zont at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> 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
>