Dans la iostatpage de manuel, j'ai trouvé ces deux colonnes similaires:
await
    The average time (in milliseconds) for I/O requests issued to the device to be  served.  This
    includes the time spent by the requests in queue and the time spent servicing them.
svctm
    The  average  service time (in milliseconds) for I/O requests that were issued to the device.
    Warning! Do not trust this field any more.  This field will be removed in  a  future  sysstat
    version.
Ces colonnes sont-elles censées représenter la même chose? Il me semble que parfois ils sont d'accord, mais parfois non:
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           4.44    0.02    1.00    0.36    0.00   94.19
Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm  %util
sda               0.07     0.96    0.28    1.28     8.98    47.45    72.13     0.02   11.36   11.49   11.34   5.71   0.89
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           8.00    0.00    2.50    2.50    0.00   87.00
Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm  %util
sda               0.00     9.00    2.00    6.00    12.00    68.00    20.00     0.05    6.00    2.00    7.33   6.00   4.80
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
           4.57    0.00    0.51    0.00    0.00   94.92
Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm  %util
sda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
          13.93    0.00    1.99    1.49    0.00   82.59
Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm  %util
sda               0.00    29.00    0.00    4.00     0.00   132.00    66.00     0.03    7.00    0.00    7.00   7.00   2.80
Outre l'avertissement évident qui svctmest déprécié, quelle est la différence entre ces deux colonnes ?
await=svctm+however_long_in_queue, tout comme le beau manuel l'indique!