iostats.txt: standardize document format
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I/O statistics fields
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Since 2.4.20 (and some versions before, with patches), and 2.5.45,
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more extensive disk statistics have been introduced to help measure disk
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Both /proc/diskstats and sysfs use the same source for the information
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and so should not differ.
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Here are examples of these different formats:
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Here are examples of these different formats::
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2.4:
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3 0 39082680 hda 446216 784926 9550688 4382310 424847 312726 5922052 19310380 0 3376340 23705160
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3 1 9221278 hda1 35486 0 35496 38030 0 0 0 0 0 38030 38030
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2.4:
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3 0 39082680 hda 446216 784926 9550688 4382310 424847 312726 5922052 19310380 0 3376340 23705160
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3 1 9221278 hda1 35486 0 35496 38030 0 0 0 0 0 38030 38030
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2.6 sysfs:
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446216 784926 9550688 4382310 424847 312726 5922052 19310380 0 3376340 23705160
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35486 38030 38030 38030
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2.6 sysfs:
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446216 784926 9550688 4382310 424847 312726 5922052 19310380 0 3376340 23705160
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35486 38030 38030 38030
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2.6 diskstats:
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3 0 hda 446216 784926 9550688 4382310 424847 312726 5922052 19310380 0 3376340 23705160
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3 1 hda1 35486 38030 38030 38030
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2.6 diskstats:
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3 0 hda 446216 784926 9550688 4382310 424847 312726 5922052 19310380 0 3376340 23705160
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3 1 hda1 35486 38030 38030 38030
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On 2.4 you might execute "grep 'hda ' /proc/partitions". On 2.6, you have
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a choice of "cat /sys/block/hda/stat" or "grep 'hda ' /proc/diskstats".
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Field 1 -- # of reads completed
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This is the total number of reads completed successfully.
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Field 2 -- # of reads merged, field 6 -- # of writes merged
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Reads and writes which are adjacent to each other may be merged for
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efficiency. Thus two 4K reads may become one 8K read before it is
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ultimately handed to the disk, and so it will be counted (and queued)
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as only one I/O. This field lets you know how often this was done.
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Field 3 -- # of sectors read
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This is the total number of sectors read successfully.
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Field 4 -- # of milliseconds spent reading
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This is the total number of milliseconds spent by all reads (as
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measured from __make_request() to end_that_request_last()).
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Field 5 -- # of writes completed
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This is the total number of writes completed successfully.
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Field 6 -- # of writes merged
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See the description of field 2.
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Field 7 -- # of sectors written
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This is the total number of sectors written successfully.
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Field 8 -- # of milliseconds spent writing
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This is the total number of milliseconds spent by all writes (as
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measured from __make_request() to end_that_request_last()).
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Field 9 -- # of I/Os currently in progress
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The only field that should go to zero. Incremented as requests are
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given to appropriate struct request_queue and decremented as they finish.
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Field 10 -- # of milliseconds spent doing I/Os
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This field increases so long as field 9 is nonzero.
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Field 11 -- weighted # of milliseconds spent doing I/Os
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This field is incremented at each I/O start, I/O completion, I/O
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merge, or read of these stats by the number of I/Os in progress
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Field 1 -- # of reads issued
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This is the total number of reads issued to this partition.
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Field 2 -- # of sectors read
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This is the total number of sectors requested to be read from this
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partition.
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Field 3 -- # of writes issued
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This is the total number of writes issued to this partition.
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Field 4 -- # of sectors written
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This is the total number of sectors requested to be written to
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this partition.
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In 2.6, sysfs is not mounted by default. If your distribution of
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Linux hasn't added it already, here's the line you'll want to add to
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your /etc/fstab:
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your /etc/fstab::
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none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
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none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
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In 2.6, all disk statistics were removed from /proc/stat. In 2.4, they
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