iostat -x and sar -d output shows incorrect high %util values for nvme SSD disks
Issue
- iostat reports incorrect utilisation for nvme ssd
- iostat shows bad utilization values for devices with scheduler set to none, for example nvme drives
- sar -d shows wrong utilisation values for disks
- sar -d and iostat -x report high disk utilization (%util)
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rMB/s wMB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util nvme0n1 0.00 0.00 0.00 51.00 0.00 0.81 32.47 0.99 0.02 0.00 0.02 19.45 99.20 nvme1n1 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.01 24.00 0.94 0.00 0.00 0.00 939.00 93.90
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
- nvme device driver
- NVMe SSD disks
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