On 19 May, 2011 - Sa??o Kiselkov sent me these 0,6K bytes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to ask whether there is a way to monitor disk seeks. I have an
> application where many concurrent readers (>50) sequentially read a
> large dataset (>10T) at a fairly low speed (8-10 Mbit/s). I can monitor
> read/write ops using iostat, but that doesn't tell me how contiguous the
> data is, i.e. when iostat reports "500" read ops, does that translate to
> 500 seeks + 1 read per seek, or 50 seeks + 10 reads, etc? Thanks!

Get DTraceToolkit and check out the various things under Disk and FS,
might help.

/Tomas
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Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/
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