Re: PATCH against 2.2.13: disk io stats in /proc/stat

Martin Dalecki (arijort@valinux.com)
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 08:20:27 -0500 (EST)


So regardless of /proc/stat, which Stephen Tweedie's
sard utility relies on, what are people using to get
basic low level disk io stats?

What /proc/stat purports to provide is what I'm looking
for, but that information doesn't seem to be reliable,
nor is there enough of it.

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On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Martin Dalecki wrote:

> /proc/stat should be killed asap. There should a counter in
> the device strcut for this purpose an an reserver ioctrl on
> the device special file to get this data.
>
> --
> Marcin Dalecki

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