Re: sard/iostat disk I/O statistics/accounting for 2.5.8-pre3

[Jochen Suckfuell]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:06:10AM +0200, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> > major minor  #blocks  name     rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running use aveq
> >    3     0   10037774 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc 2381496 3602026 12295120 24796300 2167401 11887863 28592436 168474630 -1 849341880 -666064880
> >
> Also, it _seems_ that only on whole devices ios_in_flight variable
> (column "running" in /proc/partitions) drops to -1. Your (and mine)
> output shows it clearly, yes. This needs further investigation, I have
> been unable to find the problem so far.

I have seen ios_in_flight as low as -4 already.

> And, as aveq value is calculated directly from the ios_in_flight
> value, the average queue value is wrong too (it never goes negative,
> if everything is all right).
The use (one of the most important values here) is also completely wrong
when ios_in_flight is too low: Whenever ios_in_flight!=0, the disk is
accounted as running.

I have patched gen_partition_disk() to correct the ios_in_flight value
as a workaround. This is better than checking it each time ios_in_flight
is decremented, because it only happens when someone reads
/proc/partitions, and so it doesn't slow down the disk access.

But I'm still trying to reproduce the cause of the problem.

Bye
Jochen

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Jochen Suckfuell