Turbo linux 7 sems to be agreeing with Curtis,
bi: ブロックデバイスに送られたブロック (blocks/s)。
bo: ブロックデバイスから受け取ったブロック (blocks/s)。
Sorry it's in Japanese but bi says "blocks sent to block device" and bo is
"blocks received from block device".
I don't know that much about it but the actual output seems to suggest that
the man page is wrong. I find it just the slightest bit amusing that such
errors in the docs should be translated faithfully when translating
invariably introduces errors of it's own ;)
Regards
Iain
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Curtis Zinzilieta" <curtisz@norchemlab.com>
Cc: "Anjan Dave" <adave@vantage.com>; "Matt Clark" <matt@ymogen.net>; "Rod
Taylor" <pg@rbt.ca>; "Postgresql Performance"
<pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] can't handle large number of INSERT/UPDATEs
> Curtis Zinzilieta <curtisz@norchemlab.com> writes:
>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Er ... it *is* the other way around. bi is blocks in (to the CPU),
>>> bo is blocks out (from the CPU).
>
>> Ummm.....
>> [curtisz@labsoft T2]$ man vmstat
>> bi: Blocks sent to a block device (blocks/s).
>> bo: Blocks received from a block device (blocks/s).
>
> You might want to have a word with your OS vendor. My vmstat
> man page says
>
> IO
> bi: Blocks received from a block device (blocks/s).
> bo: Blocks sent to a block device (blocks/s).
>
> and certainly anyone who's been around a computer more than a week or
> two knows which direction "in" and "out" are customarily seen from.
>
> regards, tom lane
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