From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
To: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>,
"M. Edward Borasky" <znmeb@aracnet.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IO stats in /proc/partitions
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 14:55:03 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200205051149.g45BnGX13620@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200205041959.g44JxQa20044.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl> <HBEHIIBBKKNOBLMPKCBBCEAOEMAA.znmeb@aracnet.com> <20020504213534.GA3034@louise.pinerecords.com>
On 4 May 2002 19:35, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > I recently spent a week trying to track down the units used for the disk
> > stats in /proc/stat. Through a combination of queries on the LKML and
> > trucking through the source with rgrep, I managed to get my questions
> > answered. It matters to me and to the people I work for exactly how many
> > bytes the I/O subsystem is handling per second, and how close to the
> > capacity of the I/O subsystem a machine is operating. I consider the fact
> > that I had to dig for and ask for this information unacceptable.
>
> But hey, you've suffered thru it, which, guess what, makes you the perfect
> candidate to have the honor of writing the docs!
And peppering code with cute little comments + feeding patches to Rusty's
'trivial' patchbot.
BTW, are units consistent? Kilobytes? Pages? Sectors?
--
vda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-05 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-04 19:59 IO stats in /proc/partitions Andries.Brouwer
2002-05-04 20:35 ` M. Edward Borasky
2002-05-04 21:25 ` Mark Hahn
2002-05-05 1:04 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2002-05-06 14:04 ` Jakob Østergaard
2002-05-04 21:35 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-05-05 1:08 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2002-05-05 1:18 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-05-05 16:55 ` Denis Vlasenko [this message]
2002-05-05 18:10 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2002-05-05 23:51 ` Thomas Zimmerman
2002-05-04 22:53 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-04 22:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-05-15 21:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-05-15 23:18 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-05-16 0:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-20 18:19 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-05-21 0:36 ` Guest section DW
2002-05-21 13:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-16 7:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-05-23 20:27 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-05-24 9:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-05 1:38 Nivedita Singhvi
2002-03-12 15:34 Jean-Eric Cuendet
2002-03-12 21:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-12 22:48 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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