[rescue] techie BSD-related q (*BSD)

[dave at cca.org]

patrick at .zill.net writes:

>I am doing some testing on disk IO and other performance measurements
>with various systems.

>Turns out that using the load average is bad, since it is calculated
>differently for EACH OS.  That is, a load average of 1.0 under Linux
>is not equivalent to a load average of 1.0 under OpenBSD on the exact
>same machine.

>I have been looking at vmstat, which measures disk in terms of "disk
>transactions".  But, I have not been able to find out what "disk
>transaction" means, exactly.

Use iostat instead of vmstat.

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