| What: /proc/diskstats | |
| Date: February 2008 | |
| Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> | |
| Description: | |
| The /proc/diskstats file displays the I/O statistics | |
| of block devices. Each line contains the following 14 | |
| fields: | |
| 1 - major number | |
| 2 - minor mumber | |
| 3 - device name | |
| 4 - reads completed successfully | |
| 5 - reads merged | |
| 6 - sectors read | |
| 7 - time spent reading (ms) | |
| 8 - writes completed | |
| 9 - writes merged | |
| 10 - sectors written | |
| 11 - time spent writing (ms) | |
| 12 - I/Os currently in progress | |
| 13 - time spent doing I/Os (ms) | |
| 14 - weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms) | |
| For more details refer to Documentation/iostats.txt |