On Wed, 10 Jan 1996 03:06:49 -0800 
 John M Vinopal <banshee@gabriella.resort.com> wrote:

 > Essentially I have a transfer count, a byte count, and an elapsed time
 > counter.  I can do any permutation of things like xfer/sec, bytes/sec,
 > Mbytes/sec, sectors/sec, bytes/xfer, etc.

I think that xfer/sec, Mbytes/sec, bytes/xfer, and perhaps the trnasfer 
count, byte count, and total time totals (though their values can get 
_quite_ large, but a separate program could be used to view them after 
you've gotten an idea of what your system is doing with iostat) would be 
useful.

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