On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:45:59AM +0200, Esben Stien wrote:
Ross Vandegrift <ross(a)kallisti.us> writes:
"iostat -x" gives you detailed I/O
statistics on each partition
..which is not really what you want. What you want is io statistics on
the thread.
The use-case is to time when a umount will complete flushing data to
disk so the disk can be removed. There isn't really such a thing as
"per-thread" i/o - all the actual disk writes are coming from pdflush
already.
--
Ross Vandegrift
ross(a)kallisti.us
"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
--St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37