Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:37:09 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: /proc/partitions statistics question |
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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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