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SubjectRe: [RFC] blkstat
Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:02, Nick Piggin wrote:
>

>>The problem with that is that it does not give you a % idle
>>figure on the block device, so you basically can't see if
>>the device is becoming a bottleneck.
>
>
> I've often wondered how iostat gives a %busy figure and whether this
> translated accurately without further info from the kernel.
>
>

Oh, it does havea "%util" in its extended stats. Sorry I missed
that so you might be right.

Hmm, so I guess it uses io_ticks and that does appear to give
the valid measure. I'll have a think about that - perhaps there
is still a place for the split read/write statistics I'm using...

Thanks,
Nick

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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