cpu iowait ???

[djinn_fr22]

Hi,

I am wondering why there is not the calculation of iowait on zabbix agent for linux.

I look at cpustat.c, and it looks like it takes only the first 4 numbers of /proc/stat

Why not getting the fifth one which is iowait ??

It won't be a major change in the code !!!!

iowait is really important for monitoring servers that are loaded because of waiting disk access.

Will it be implemented in future version ?

Thanks.

[nelsonab]

I have a need for this one too. We have some Oracle servers which one of the DBA's was asking for this information recently.

I could always hack an external script, but I've already got enough of those and I don't want the zabbix agent to use up too much CPU while it's trying to just monitor.

[phork]

I could use this as well, also for an Oracle server.