3PAR System Reporter User’s Guide

System Reporter 2.8

6.3.3 Node Cache Performance Reports

Table 6-7describes the metrics that are shown for Node Cache Performance Reports.

Table 6-7.Node Cache Performance Report Metrics

Metric

Description

 

 

Read Hits

Number of reads that hit in the cache.

 

 

Read Misses

Number of reads that miss in the cache.

 

 

Read Total

Total number of reads. Not shown in charts.

 

 

Write Hits

Number of writes for which the page is already in cache AND is

 

dirty (i.e., has previously written data that has not yet been flushed

 

to disk).

 

 

Write Misses

Number of writes that miss in the cache. A write is considered a

 

miss if the page is not in the cache or if the page is not dirty in the

 

cache (see above).

 

 

Write Total

Total number of writes. Not shown in charts.

 

 

Read Hit%

Percentage of reads (out of total reads) that hit in the cache.

 

 

Write Hit%

Percentage of write (out of total writes) that hit in the cache.

 

 

Total

Total number of accesses (reads + writes). Not shown in charts.

 

 

Lock Blocks

Number of locked blocks.

 

 

Free

Free space for the cache.

 

 

Clean

Number of clean cache pages (valid data on page).

 

 

Write1

Number of dirty pages that have been modified exactly 1 time. A

 

page is dirty when it has been modified in cache but not written to

 

disk.

 

 

WriteN

Number of dirty pages that have been modified more than 1 time.

 

 

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Performance Reports