Since our mirrors of the Valles Marinerismovie clips have been running fortwo days now, it's time to look at how things turned out. I'll startwith the raw numbers:

• On Monday, we transfered 198.64 gigabytes in 7,781 requests, despitenot getting much traffic until about 10am Eastern time.
• On Tuesday, we transfered 316.36 gigabytes in 13,979 requests.

(At a later date I may wrangle

I was recently reminded that Linux's iostat command is what I call'overly helpful'. It's not that it lies to you, exactly; it's that iostat is a little bit too eager to please people reading its output,particularly iostat -x output. There are a number of issues.

(The rest of this assumes that you're familiar with the iostat -x fields.)

The fatally flawed field is svctm , the 'average service time' forIOs. It would be