Re^3: (OT) Get the number of blocks per second by reading the proc diskstats file

Take a look at the source for Sys::Statistics::Linux::DiskStats. It includes comments like:

        # ------------------------------------------------------------
+--
        # The sectors are equivalent with blocks and have a size of 51
+2
        # bytes since 2.4 kernels. This value is needed to calculate t
+he
        # amount of disk i/o's in bytes.
        # ------------------------------------------------------------
+--
        blocksize => 512,
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Reading the code and seeing how the module's author calculates values should be helpful.

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