This is teh iostat: $ iostat 2 10 tty sd6 ssd0 ssd1 nfs1 cpu tin tout kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv us sy wt id 1 88 0 0 0 947 22 42 96 0 85 0 0 0 6 2 7 84 0 117 0 0 0 884 110 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 89 10 0 40 0 0 0 828 104 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 86 13 0 40 0 0 0 860 107 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 86 11 0 40 0 0 0 884 110 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 82 15 0 40 0 0 0 856 107 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 85 14 0 40 0 0 0 852 106 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 84 15 0 40 0 0 0 828 104 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 85 14 0 40 0 0 0 816 102 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 79 20 0 40 0 0 0 828 103 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 76 24 The high io may get cleared if the server is rebooted. However, i want to find what is the root cause for this IO Thanks, Raj Richard Ji <richard.c.ji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: You can get pio and topio. Google on the two commands and the top link is what you need. On 10/24/05, raja rao <raja4list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi All, I am observing lot of WIO when did a sar -u 2 5 $ sar -u 2 5 SunOS oracle 5.9 Generic_117171-02 sun4u 10/24/2005 09:37:54 %usr %sys %wio %idle 09:37:56 0 1 86 12 09:37:58 0 1 89 9 09:38:00 0 1 88 10 09:38:02 1 1 86 11 09:38:04 0 2 85 13 you have mail in /var/mail/oracle --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.