[4838] in Athena Bugs
iostat/vmstat bug from comp.bugs.4bsd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sun Apr 29 15:23:34 1990
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 90 15:23:19 -0400
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I don't know whether or not this bug applies to us....
In article <5893@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM>, arleneh@puffin.USS.TEK.COM (Arlene
D. Hills) writes:
|>
|> I have a system with both unibus and massbus drives, and I'm trying to
|> get iostat (and also vmstat) to yield information on the unibus drives.
|>
|> Per the man pages on iostat and vmstat, I should be able to supply a device
|> name on the command line that will force reporting of that particular
|> device. This does not seem to be the case. I have included the following
|> script file which illustrates my point.
|>
|> Script started on Fri Apr 27 12:07:47 1990
|> % iostat
|> tty ra0 ra1 ra4 ra2
cpu
|> tin tout bps tps msps bps tps msps bps tps msps bps tps msps us
ni sy id
|> 2 194 7 3 0.0 1 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 3 1 0.0 3
0 7 89
|> % iostat hp0
|> tty ra0 ra1 ra4 ra2
cpu
|> tin tout bps tps msps bps tps msps bps tps msps bps tps msps us
ni sy id
|> 2 194 7 3 0.0 1 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 3 1 0.0 3
0 7 89
|> % iostat ra3
|> tty ra0 ra1 ra4 ra2
cpu
|> tin tout bps tps msps bps tps msps bps tps msps bps tps msps us
ni sy id
|> 2 194 7 3 0.0 1 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 3 1 0.0 3
0 7 89
|> % vmstat hp0
|> procs memory page faults cpu
|> r b w avm fre re at pi po fr de sr r0 r1 r4 r2 in sy cs
us sy id
|> 0 0 0 830 20079 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 28 177 38
4 7 89
|> % vmstat ra3
|> procs memory page faults cpu
|> r b w avm fre re at pi po fr de sr r0 r1 r4 r2 in sy cs
us sy id
|> 0 0 0 1350 20078 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 28 177 38
4 7 89
|> %
|> script done on Fri Apr 27 12:07:47 1990
|>
|> All of the parameters above are valid drives on my system. However, it
|> doesn't matter whether the drive specification is valid or not - I get
|> the same information, for only the default disks, regardless.
|>
|> Have these programs been fixed to recognize drive specifications?
|> If so, where do I find the fix?
|>
|> Arlene Hills
|> --
|> Arlene D. Hills
|> PO Box 500, MS 50-453, Beaverton, OR 97077 Unix Systems Support
|> arleneh@puffin.USS.TEK.COM (503) 627-5417 Tektronix, Inc.
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