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How does avgqu-sz size in iostat output relate to r_await and w_await?
Can someone explain what does avgqu-sz mean in the output of iostat? The manual page states like this.
avgqu-sz:
The average queue length of the requests that were issued to the device.
Can someone help me understand this a little more?
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iostat reporting low r/s on first line for specific disk, expected r/s on all following lines for that same disk
When copying data from hard disk sdc to sda, I notice that the number of read requests completed per second was unusually low:
$ iostat -x 1 1
Linux 3.13.0-32-generic (melancholy) 2014-08-15 _x86_64_ (4 CPU)
avg-cpu: %user %nice…
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