Re: Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-06 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 19:10 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: [...] So what does vmstat -d tell me? Is the number of IO under total column supposed to be the number of IOs issued to the controller with each IO being contiguous N sectors? man vmstat says 'total' is Total writes completed successfully.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-06 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 19:10 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: [...] So what does vmstat -d tell me? Is the number of IO under total column supposed to be the number of IOs issued to the controller with each IO being contiguous N sectors? man vmstat says 'total' is Total writes completed

Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-05 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 18:30 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: I do not have SSD. I have a USB flash drive - went cheap on this :-) Regardless of the above, still every write by the kernel has to be translated in to NAND writes. I have read in more than one place that these writes will be in units

Re: Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-05 Thread R. Ramesh
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 18:30 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: I do not have SSD. I have a USB flash drive - went cheap on this :-) Regardless of the above, still every write by the kernel has to be translated in to NAND writes. I have read in more than one place that these writes will be in units

Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-04 Thread R. Ramesh
All, I run a debian firewall on an atom PC running of a 16G flash drive. I am trying understand the amount of disk write performed in order to understand how long my flash is likely to last. I have two vmstat -d information on the flash 2011-01-31 00:35 disk-

Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-04 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:34 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: All, I run a debian firewall on an atom PC running of a 16G flash drive. I am trying understand the amount of disk write performed in order to understand how long my flash is likely to last. [..] Note that the kernel writes do not

Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-04 Thread R. Ramesh
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:34 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: All, I run a debian firewall on an atom PC running of a 16G flash drive. I am trying understand the amount of disk write performed in order to understand how long my flash is likely to last. [..] Note that the kernel writes do not