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UFS Direct I/O Statistics

Monitoring Direct I/O

The directiostat command is a tool that dumps out the kstat information for direct I/O calls to filesystems.

# directiostat 3
  lreads lwrites  preads pwrites     Krd     Kwr holdrds  nflush
       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
  • lreads = logical reads to the UFS via directio
  • lwrites = logical writes to the UFS via directio
  • preads = physical reads to media
  • pwrites = physical writes to media
  • Krd = kilobytes read
  • Kwr = kilobytes written
  • nflush = number of cached pages flushed
  • holdrds = number of times the read was a "hole" in the file.

The directiostat utility can be downloaded from here.



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Last Updated Dec 02 2005 00:21