[CentOS] Antwort: Question about iostat output

[Christoph Maser]

Am Dienstag, den 22.09.2009, 10:42 +0200 schrieb
Frank.Brodbeck at klingel.de:
> Hi,
>
> Pascal Robert <probert at macti.ca>  schrieb am 21.09.2009 20:01:20:
>
> > [root at golgoth ~]# iostat
>
> I've learned that you must always ignore the first output of
> iostat but do something along the line of ``iostat 5'' and let
> it collect some data before even starting to care about it.
>
> Frank.
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Why ignore it, us it correctly. From the manpage:

 "The first report generated by the iostat  command  provides statistics
concerning the time since the system was booted"


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