“Total Disk I/O Checks” reports the number of times engines entered a routine to check for disk I/O. The io polling process count configuration parameter controls the frequency of this check.
When a task needs to perform I/O, the Adaptive Server engine running the task immediately issues an I/O request and puts the task to sleep, waiting for the I/O to complete. The engine may process other tasks, but continues to check for completed I/Os. When the engine finds completed I/Os, it moves the task from the sleep queue to the run queue.
