>Number:         2669
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       iostat reports wrong numbers
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug  1 19:05:04 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Lennart Augustsson
>Organization:
Chalmers University, Dept of CS
>Release:        1.2_BETA
>Environment:
System: NetBSD calvin.cs.chalmers.se 1.2_BETA NetBSD 1.2_BETA (CALVIN) #36: Fri Aug 2 00:34:30 MET DST 1996 augustss@calvin.cs.chalmers.se:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/CALVIN i386


>Description:
	The transfer rate in MB/s report by iostat is incorrect.
	In my case I'm playing CD quality music from disk so I know
	the transfer rate is exactly 176.4 kB/s, but iostat reports
	0.09 M/s.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Transfer at a known rate and observe the figures.
>Fix:
	I don't know.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: