On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 11:35:30AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:

> 	Currently 'systat vmstat' displays disk information in
> 	columns 5 wide, with titles 4 wide. This clips the instance
> 	number from raid devices, and causes numbers to run into
> 	each other:
> 
> Discs  wd0  wd1  cd0  fd0  md0 raid raid               64 fmin
> seeks                                                  85 ftarg
> xfers  177  179                  35    3                  itarg
> Kbyte1132811385                 568  103              470 wired
> %busy 99.6 99.4                16.1                       pdfre

I wonder if some sort of scaling (like top) would work.  For example:

Discs  wd0  wd1  cd0  fd0  md0 raid raid               64 fmin
seeks                                                  85 ftarg
xfers  177  179                  35    3                  itarg
Kbyte  11M  11M                 568  103              470 wired
%busy 99.6 99.4                16.1                       pdfre

Other things that come to mind are auto-scaling the widths of the
columns based on the number of disk devices, and perhaps some heuristic
to weed out devices that aren't really used (cd0, fd0 and md0 in your
example).

Simon.
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