Bug 55986 – iostat statistics in KB/s

Bug 55986 - iostat statistics in KB/s

Summary:	iostat statistics in KB/s

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	sysstat (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Reported:	2001-11-09 16:29 EST by Frank Hirtz
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-12-12 15:16:35 EST
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Description Frank Hirtz 2001-11-09 16:29:43 EST

Description of Problem:
The iostat manpage says, in the BUGS section: 

Statistics in KB/s for each block device are not available by  default  due
 to Linux poor disk accounting.  For the   same reason,  a  kernel  patch 
need to be  applied  for extended statistics to be displayed.

Our performance tuning group only has tools to analyze system performance
in KB/s, not sectors/s.  What is the procedure for enabling this (the man
page says it's not available "by default" which means it should be
available by some mechanism)?

--MSDW request

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Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-12-11 17:02:30 EST

So the request is?

Comment 2 Frank Hirtz 2001-12-11 17:05:33 EST

It's a Morgan Stanley feature request. They'd like to have this ability added.

Comment 3 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-12-12 15:16:30 EST

The extended information patch is part of the kernel, and the information has
been removed from the man page to avoid confusion.

Comment 4 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-02-28 18:21:16 EST

sysstat-4.0.3-1 from http://people.redhat.com/teg/sysstat/ has this capability.

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