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SubjectRe: /proc/partitions statistics question
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:35:06PM +0100, Jean-Luc Fontaine wrote:
> (24566 - 7925) = 16641 were written, whereas
> (23567 - 7152) = 16415 were read
> I would have expected something near 1048576 (kilobytes),
> but the results seem to be roughly 64 times less...
>
> I would really appreciate an explanation, as I use those statistics
> in a monitoring program and for filesystems performance tests.
>
> Many thanks for your help!
>

check out the man page for iostat in the sar/sysstat package. It documents
what is happening here. This is in blocks, and there is merging to
consider and etc...

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