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May 15th, 2011 18:00

ISM question on disk utilization

Can someone explain how these calculations are done ?

Consider a disk I/O system in which an I/O request arrives at a rate of 100 IOPS and the service time is 4 ms.

What is the utilization?

A. 40%

B. 10%

C. 80%

D. 4%

Answer:

A

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May 18th, 2011 08:00

Rs: service time is 4ms = 4/1000 sec

a:  arrive rate of 100 IOPS

U= a * Rs

   =100 * (4/1000)  = 0.4

So the Utilization percentage would be 40%

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