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2 Block layer statistics in /sys/block/<dev>/stat
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5 This file documents the contents of the /sys/block/<dev>/stat file.
7 The stat file provides several statistics about the state of block
11 Why are there multiple statistics in a single file? Doesn't sysfs
12 normally contain a single value per file?
15 By having a single file, the kernel can guarantee that the statistics
16 represent a consistent snapshot of the state of the device. If the
17 statistics were exported as multiple files containing one statistic
18 each, it would be impossible to guarantee that a set of readings
19 represent a single point in time.
21 The stat file consists of a single line of text containing 17 decimal
22 values separated by whitespace. The fields are summarized in the
23 following table, and described in more detail below.
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27 Name units description
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29 read I/Os requests number of read I/Os processed
30 read merges requests number of read I/Os merged with in-queue I/O
31 read sectors sectors number of sectors read
32 read ticks milliseconds total wait time for read requests
33 write I/Os requests number of write I/Os processed
34 write merges requests number of write I/Os merged with in-queue I/O
35 write sectors sectors number of sectors written
36 write ticks milliseconds total wait time for write requests
37 in_flight requests number of I/Os currently in flight
38 io_ticks milliseconds total time this block device has been active
39 time_in_queue milliseconds total wait time for all requests
40 discard I/Os requests number of discard I/Os processed
41 discard merges requests number of discard I/Os merged with in-queue I/O
42 discard sectors sectors number of sectors discarded
43 discard ticks milliseconds total wait time for discard requests
44 flush I/Os requests number of flush I/Os processed
45 flush ticks milliseconds total wait time for flush requests
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48 read I/Os, write I/Os, discard I/0s
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51 These values increment when an I/O request completes.
56 These values increment when an flush I/O request completes.
58 Block layer combines flush requests and executes at most one at a time.
59 This counts flush requests executed by disk. Not tracked for partitions.
61 read merges, write merges, discard merges
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64 These values increment when an I/O request is merged with an
65 already-queued I/O request.
67 read sectors, write sectors, discard_sectors
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70 These values count the number of sectors read from, written to, or
71 discarded from this block device. The "sectors" in question are the
72 standard UNIX 512-byte sectors, not any device- or filesystem-specific
73 block size. The counters are incremented when the I/O completes.
75 read ticks, write ticks, discard ticks, flush ticks
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78 These values count the number of milliseconds that I/O requests have
79 waited on this block device. If there are multiple I/O requests waiting,
80 these values will increase at a rate greater than 1000/second; for
81 example, if 60 read requests wait for an average of 30 ms, the read_ticks
82 field will increase by 60*30 = 1800.
87 This value counts the number of I/O requests that have been issued to
88 the device driver but have not yet completed. It does not include I/O
89 requests that are in the queue but not yet issued to the device driver.
94 This value counts the number of milliseconds during which the device has
95 had I/O requests queued.
100 This value counts the number of milliseconds that I/O requests have waited
101 on this block device. If there are multiple I/O requests waiting, this
102 value will increase as the product of the number of milliseconds times the
103 number of requests waiting (see "read ticks" above for an example).