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Javier Ortiz Guajardo
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sar statistics question

In the manual from command sar (#man sar) explains this for %wio.

%wio idle with some process waiting for I/O (only block I/O, raw I/O, or VM pageins/swapins indicated);

What means I/O block?.

Thanks.

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Stuart Browne
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Re: sar statistics question

Well, you must be using a different version of Sar that I'm used to using under Linux. In any case, it's talking about Disk access as best as I can understand.

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-19/0567.html

This tries to explain how the data is retrieved for the %WIO values.

Hope that helps. Failing that, you could always look at the discussions for the meaning of the value for other OS's.
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