I need to find the total number of disk requests made on the system. /proc/stat does not contain this info. Please, help.
Linux version 2.6.11 Mandrake Linux 10.2

Tried /proc/diskstats , received following results:

major minor #blocks name

8 0 39062500 sda
8 1 104391 sda1
8 2 38957625 sda2
253 0 37879808 dm-0
253 1 1015808 dm-1
[djscales@fedora6 proc]$ cat /proc/diskstats
1 0 ram0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 ram1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 2 ram2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 3 ram3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 4 ram4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 5 ram5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 6 ram6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 7 ram7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 8 ram8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 9 ram9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 10 ram10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 11 ram11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 12 ram12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 13 ram13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 14 ram14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 15 ram15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 0 hda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 0 sda 26067 1132 415576 87495 72142 124876 1576062 290318 0 123954 377813
8 1 sda1 410 828 15 30
8 2 sda2 26756 414476 197004 1576032
253 0 dm-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
253 1 dm-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 0 fd0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 0 md0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Where is the number of total requests?

Hi.

Have a squiz at this:
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/.../msg01010.html

Dave