Description of problem: 2.5.4.1. The iostat command Command output example is for older version of iostat. New version (in RHEL 4) has the following differences: 1. Additional cpu column "%iowait" 2. Devices are now shown as "hda", "sda", "md0", etc, instead of "dev2-0", "dev3-0", etc. Example: Linux 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL_blb_P4 (foobar.example.com) 02/23/2005 avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle 0.14 0.00 0.22 2.37 97.27 Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn hda 0.74 33.25 99.74 2344531 7031970 hdb 2.08 214.19 288.00 15100778 20304528 hdd 2.03 200.41 288.00 14128983 20304528 md0 39.28 414.59 287.81 29229074 20290864 sda 0.00 0.01 0.00 408 0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhel-isa(EN)-4-HTML-RHI (2004-08-25T17:11)
Adding 'cc ecs-dev-list for tracking
Removing automation notification
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