From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] nfsstat: adding -D/--diff-stat to nfsstat
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:11:21 +1000
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Cc: Andrew Richardson <chardson@umich.edu>,
	nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Alex Soule <soule@umich.edu>
To: "david m. richter" <richterd@citi.umich.edu>
In-Reply-To: message from david m. richter on Tuesday July 31
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On Tuesday July 31, richterd@citi.umich.edu wrote:
> 	Hello, Neil,
> 
> 	This set of patches adds -D/--diff-stat to nfsstat.  When this 
> flag is used, instead of printing out the current total statistics and 
> exiting, nfsstat takes a snapshot of the current statistics and pauses 
> until the user types ^C, at which point a second snapshot is taken and 
> only the difference between the two is printed; i.e., only the statistics 
> gathered during the pause.

Sounds useful, though I think it would be even more useful if you
could specify a number of seconds rather than needing to interrupt.
That way you could use it in a script.
Maybe even get it to repeat every n seconds?

Thanks. I'll look through the patches.

NeilBrown

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