Buffer
Pools: Asynchronous I/O (DB2 UDB for UNIX and Windows) 
To display information on asynchronous I/O for your selected buffer pool(s), call the DBA Cockpit.
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1. In the navigation frame, choose Performance ®Buffer Pools.
The Buffer Pool Snapshot screen appears.
2.
To display more detailed
information, select one or more buffer pools and choose 
Details.
A detail Buffer Pool Snapshot screen appears.
3. Choose Asynchronous I/O.
If you have selected more than one buffer pool, you can use the page buttons on the screen to navigate between them.
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Field |
Description |
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Average Time |
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Asynchronous Physical Reads |
Average time in milliseconds required by the I/O servers to read a page from disk and write it to the buffer pool |
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Asynchronous Physical Writes |
Average time in milliseconds required by the I/O cleaners to read a page from the buffer pool and write it to the hard disk |
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Data |
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Asynchronous Physical Reads |
Number of data pages that were read asynchronously from disk and written to the buffer pool by the I/O servers (prefetch) |
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Asynchronous Physical Writes |
Number of data pages that were written asynchronously from buffer pool to disk (I/O cleaners) |
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Asynchronous Read Requests |
Number of asynchronous data read requests |
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Index |
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Asynchronous Physical Reads |
Number of index pages that were read asynchronously from disk and written to the buffer pool by the I/O servers (prefetch) |
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Asynchronous Physical Writes |
Number of index pages that were written asynchronously from buffer pool to disk (I/O cleaners) |
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Asynchronous Read Requests |
Number of asynchronous index read requests |
Data is read or written in pages. A page can be 4 KB, 8 KB, 16 KB, or 32 KB in size.