Re: Back in Production mode Again...

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:05:11 +0100 (MET)


Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > DISK: current load average (modified for just disk if need be)
>
> How do you know when the disk is saturated... Do you just measure
> what time there are requests outstanding and when there aren't...

Right. You get a "load average" by averaging the number of waiting
requests at every clock tick, and you get an "percentage in use"
measure when you count everything > 0 as "1".

Roger.

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