Device Activity Detail

Reports activity on each logical device. It is useful for checking that I/O is well balanced across the database devices and for finding a device that might be delaying I/O. For example, if the “Task Context Switches Due To” data indicates a heavy amount of device contention, use “Device Activity Detail” to figure out which devices are causing the problem.

This section prints the following information about I/O for each data device on the server: