Brendan Gregg has a nice video on how Solaris 10's iowait works. It starts a little slow and may even sound imprecise or inaccurate, but it gets better around 6

Brendan Gregg has a nice video on how Solaris 10's iowait works. It starts a little slow and may even sound imprecise or inaccurate, but it gets better around 6 minutes in. http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/06/24/load-average-video/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/06/24/load-average-vide...