iostat strangeness

[Michael ODonnell]

>>    /etc/sysstat/sysstat.ioconf
>
>No file called sysstat.ioconf anywhere on my system.

Try looking over iostat's shoulder as it runs, to see if you
can figure out where it's looking for the info it wants:

   strace iostat -x -k

Maybe you'll catch it looking someplace that has bogus data,
or at least discover where it's getting (the equivalent of)
that sysstat.ioconf file.

If that approach spews unwieldy amounts of glop you can
capture it thus:

   script /tmp/iostat.sessionLog
   [captive session starts here]
   strace iostat -x -k
   exit
   [captive session terminates]

...and then have a look at /tmp/iostat.sessionLog