Hi , i have a question regarding to the iostat output: Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util sdp 86432.30 0.00 3915.20 2.00 124267.20 2.00 62133.60 1.00 31.72 32.86 8.39 0.26 100.00 According to this output: rrqm/s : 86432.3 , r/s:3915.2 , rkB/s : 62133.60 . rrqm/s The number of read requests merged per sec- ond that were issued to the device. The operating system merges multiple io requests into one read call , since these io requests are small from the basic io unit. I have 86432.3 merge per second , with 3915.2 read per second. This shows that , for 1 read operation , my system does 22 merge .(86432.3/3915.2) . On the other hand , 62133.60 / 3915.2 = 15kb , each read operation issues 15Kb. from the underlying disk subsystem. 15kb/22 merge = 0,6 kb more or less 512b. So each io request in fact is 512byte , but since the minimum io that os can request is 15kb, they are merged till the 15kb. size is reached. Are these comments meaningful? Kind Regards, tolga -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list