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list Roland Soderstrom
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:56:38 +1000
Message-Id: <user-833cb312e65d@xymon.invalid>

Vernon, I have an comment.

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- If you have a 10sec iostat which you run every 5min, as you set the test to run, you get huge gaps. -
- Say that your server always have a lot of IO every 3min for 1 min. -
- You will probably miss all this IO, set it to the same as the clientlaunch time 5min = 300 in the script. -
- iostat need to run constantly to make accurate measurements. -
- That's why you see the default do 300 sec. -
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To get better accuracy you should probably run "iostat dxn 300 13" and run the script from clientlaunch every hour.
A bit more coding to take care of the 11 "new" iostat though.

- Roland

On 9/09/10 06:56 PM, Vernon Everett wrote:
Just updated the code. Minor change.
After discussion with a colleague we thought that a 2 second iostat sample might not be adequate.
We settled on 10, but with the update, I have made it a parameter, which can be set at server side.

Cheers
Vernon

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Vernon Everett <user-b3f8dacb72c8@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi all

Just posted an iostat add-on, with graphing goodness to
http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors:diskstat.ksh