1 In this example, bitesize.d was run for several seconds then Ctrl-C was hit.
2 As bitesize.d runs it records how processes on the system are accessing the
3 disks - in particular the size of the I/O operation. It is usually desirable
4 for processes to be requesting large I/O operations rather than taking many
7 The final report highlights how processes performed. The find command mostly
8 read 1K blocks while the tar command was reading large blocks - both as
12 Tracing... Hit Ctrl-C to end.
18 value ------------- Distribution ------------- count
20 1024 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 2
27 value ------------- Distribution ------------- count
32 8192 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 5
37 value ------------- Distribution ------------- count
41 8192 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 10
46 value ------------- Distribution ------------- count
48 1024 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 1452
56 value ------------- Distribution ------------- count
58 8192 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 449
61 7108 tar cf /dev/null /\0
63 value ------------- Distribution ------------- count