iostat command shows incorrect values
Issue
- When we execute command
iostat 3 2on our production server at first time it shows very high value and thereafter it shows proper values.
Sample output is as follows :-
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
12.41 0.00 1.81 1.55 0.00 84.23
Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn
sda 215.82 16049.26 5674.14 115871138897 40965666846
sdb 0.00 0.00 0.00 3560 0
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
1.47 0.00 0.13 0.08 0.00 98.32
Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn
sda 20.67 5.33 386.67 16 1160
sdb 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)5.3
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