xosview scaling error on DISK throughput

Ron Yorston rmy at tigress.co.uk
Sun May 30 21:04:11 UTC 2004


I've had a look at the source for xosview and I don't see how it can
possibly be giving sensible values for disk activity.  It tries to get
the disk i/o data by looking in /proc/stat for a line starting with
'page', but this seems to have vanished in the 2.6 kernel.  Presumably
because disk statistics are now in /proc/diskstats.

(And incidentally,

    // Find the line with 'page'
    stats >> buf;
    while (strncmp(buf, "page", 9))

Why 9?)

One for bugzilla, perhaps?

Ron





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