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You can do I/O sniffing using the command blktrace. blktrace will show you every request that goes to the disk.
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Example:
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# blktrace -d /dev/sdg -o - | blkparse -i -
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[...]
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  <abbr title="device (major/minor number)">8,96</abbr>  <abbr title="processor">7</abbr>      <abbr title="sequence number">106</abbr>    <abbr title="timestamp">0.373952974</abbr> <abbr title="PID">11364</abbr>  <abbr title="Event">D</abbr>  <abbr title="Action">W</abbr> <abbr title="starting block + blocks">0 + 8</abbr> <abbr title="process">[kworker/7:2]</abbr>
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  8,96  7      107    0.374456639    47  C  W 0 + 8 [0]
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Event can be:
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RWBS

Revision as of 05:34, 25 May 2013

You can do I/O sniffing using the command blktrace. blktrace will show you every request that goes to the disk.

Example:

# blktrace -d /dev/sdg -o - | blkparse -i - 
[...]
  8,96   7      106     0.373952974 11364  D   W 0 + 8 [kworker/7:2]
  8,96   7      107     0.374456639    47  C   W 0 + 8 [0]


Event can be: RWBS