System Administration Guide

Example--Displaying Disk Utilization Information

The following example shows disk statistics gathered every five seconds.


$ iostat 5
      tty          fd0           sd3       cpu
 tin tout bps tps serv  bps tps serv  us sy wt  id
   0    1   0   0    0    1   0 5640   0  1  0  98
   0   10   0   0    0    0   0    0   0  1  0  99
   0   10   0   0    0    0   0    0   0  1  0  99
   0   10   0   0    0   27   3  319   0  4  9  88
   0   10   0   0    0    2   0 5061   0  0  0  99
   0   10   0   0    0    0   0    0   0  0  0 100
   0   10   0   0    0    0   0    0   0  0  0 100
   0   10   0   0    0    0   0    0   0  0  0 100
   0   10   0   0    0    0   0    0   0  0  0 100