Iostat achieves this by observing the time devices are active in relation to their average transfer rates. With a quick run of the command, you will see reports that can help you optimize a system ...

Combining top, vmstat, and iostat allows for a comprehensive view of system performance. For instance, top can identify a high-load process, vmstat can confirm if it's due to swapping, and iostat can ...

The iostat command is part of the sysstat package. On the Ubuntu 24.10, the latest Manjaro, and Fedora Linux 40 computers we tested, iostat was already installed.

</pre><BR><BR>I've been reading the docs on iostat, and I'm a little confused - is this really a decent measure of free cpu resources, or is this just computing cpu idle time waiting on other ...

The iostat command helps monitor system input/output device loading by observing the time the devices are active in relation to their average transfer rates. It’s sometimes used to evaluate the ...

Well, I suppose that if I'm querying zpool iostat every 10 seconds, that I should divide the 'operations' number by 10. So The actual number should be ~200 IOPS. If indeed operations=iops.