[SunHELP] iostat vs. vmstat

[Jarrett Carver]

vmstat includes WIO in idle time.

iostat and sar have a seperate wio column.


Jarrett Carver           http://www.geocities.com/solarboyz1
solarboyz1 at hotmail.com   Unix/NT Systems Administrator
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>To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: [SunHELP] iostat vs. vmstat
>Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 08:58:55 -0800
>
>Hi,
>
>	I am trying to find the cpu idle time on an E-450. When I do
>
>#vmstat 1 5
>
>I get a cpu idle time of about 80%   and when I do
>
>#iostat 1 5
>
>I get cpu idle time of 10% or less.
>
>Just to make it sure - in both cases it is the last column "id" under 
>"cpu".
>I would expect them to be almost same and I get almost same on a different
>box. Any ideas what is going on here?
>
>Thanks and Regards,
>--Naresh
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