example% iostat -xtc 4 disk name of the disk r/s reads per second w/s writes per second Kr/s kilobytes read per second Kw/s kilobytes written per second wait average number of transactions waiting for service (queue length) actv average number of transactions actively being ser- viced (removed from the queue but not yet com- pleted) svc_t average service time, in milliseconds %w percent of time there are transactions waiting for service (queue non-empty) %b percent of time the disk is busy (transactions in progress)